Sevin

“Bedenkt: Den eignen Tod, den stirbt man nur; doch mit dem Tod der andern muss man leben.”
― Mascha Kaléko

“I missed you every hour. And you know what the worst part was? It caught me completely by surprise. I'd catch myself just walking around to find you, not for any reason, just out of habit, because I'd seen something that I wanted to tell you about or because I wanted to hear your voice. And then I'd realize that you weren't there anymore, and every time, every single time, it was like having the wind knocked out of me. I've risked my life for you. I've walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I'd do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don't tell me why we don't belong together," he said fiercely.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I was fifteen.
I was bored.
I was miserable.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Seeing ourselves clearly is the project of a lifetime.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix