Ivan

“No. He was not here to wreak revenge.
For revenge was trifling and hollow.
No. He was not here to retrieve his wife.
For his wife was not a thing to be retrieved.
No. He was not here to negotiate a truce.
For a truce suggested he wished to compromise.

He was here to burn something to the ground.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

“I get old when you leave me. Every wrinkle on my face is a good-bye from you”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“To die would be an awfully big adventure. But it’s not true. Life is the real adventure. Having the hurricane inside you is the true adventure. And then I think not of Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I, but of Mel Gibson as William Wallace. Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives.”
― Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus

“Somewhere, sometime, I stopped really living. I stopped really trying. And I don't understand why.”
― Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus