Serena

“For a transitory enchanted moment, man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“You will be chained to the darkness within yourself as surely as if chained to the walls of a prison cell.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“I wish for us to have the courage to go out into the world when we are ready, but to always be able to find our way back to each other. No matter what.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“I am going to tell you that you will get through it. That you will face this, and you will get through it. That these tears are good, Nesta. These tears mean you care. I am going to tell you that it is not too late, not for any of it. And I can't tell you when, or how, but it will get better. What you feel, this guilt and pain and self-loathing- you will get through it. But only if you are willing to fight. Only if you are willing to face it, and embrace it, and walk through it, to emerge on the other side of it. And maybe you will still feel that tinge of pain, but there is another side. A better side.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames