Karina

“He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Why don't you just admit that you wanted to belong to him? Why don't you admit that part of you still does?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I don't feel like a trauma victim. I feel like a house after a fire. And sometimes I fell like someone who died but stayed in his body. And sometimes I feel like someone else died, like someone else sacrificed everything, so that I can have a normal life.
With wings.
And a tail.
And vampires.
And magicians.
And a boy in my arms, instead of a girl.
And a happy ending—even if it isn't the ending I ever would have dreamt for myself, or hoped for.
A chance.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“April. Month of dust and lies.”
― Naguib Mahfouz, Adrift on the Nile: A Novel