Val

“Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“...It is impossible," I concluded, "to find any satisfaction in the thought of 25,000 slaughtered Germans, left to mutilation and decay; the destruction of men as though beasts, whether they be English, French, German or anything else, seems a crime to the whole march of civilization.”
― Vera Brittain

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“Then I knew: this wasn’t just a passion I felt for my model. My feelings about him had nothing to do with how his looks inspired me; he was far more than a muse. With every stroke of pencil and crayon, I had drawn Will into my heart.

I was in love with him.”
― Sharon Biggs Waller, A Mad, Wicked Folly