Elphaba

“Present, I flee you: absent, I find you again.(Shakespeare)

Present, I fled him. But no matter the distance between us, I kept coming back to him. It all kept coming back to him.”
― Cora Carmack, Losing It

“Four.
That’s the number of people who saw me hiding around the corner from my own apartment in just a skirt and a bra. Eleven.
That’s the number of ant bites I got on my shoeless feet.
Twenty-seven.
That’s the number of times I was tempted to do myself physical harm because I am an IDIOT.
One.
That’s the number of times I tried not to cry, but failed.”
― Cora Carmack, Losing It

“Sometimes, it's the scary things in life that are the most worthwhile.”
― Cora Carmack, Losing It

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier