Lumina

“I always marvel at the humans’ ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Why did it take me so many years to understand that Night is something you can talk to, something that might even decide to watch over you or kiss you just when you're about to crumple from loneliness?”
― Sarah Porter, Vassa in the Night

“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, After the War: Force of Circumstance, Volume I: 1944-1952