Claire

“You were the centre of my universe and everything else spun around you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing on everything she was, a prison she had built for herself out of an inability to appear anything less than perfect. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself. She would always be confined by what everyone expected of her because she was too afraid and too unwilling to correct our imperfect imaginings.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“It’s like being a fairy named Mary,” he goes on. “Or a vampire named Gampire,” I say. “Gampire isn’t even a proper name, Snow. You’re terrible at this game.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“They have not considered that memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.”
― Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra