Nikthya

“I didn’t want to be in the world, around all those people who didn’t read books, who didn’t think they were important.”
― Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“There’s a Korean word my grandma taught me. It’s called jung. It’s the connection between two people that can’t be severed, even when love turns to hate. You still have those old feelings for them; you can’t ever completely shake them loose of you; you will always have tenderness in your heart for them.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“I imagine you could send letters, though.”

“Never with enough postage.”

“No, faxes,” Gansey corrected himself. “Pretend I didn’t say letters. Faxes is funnier.”

Blue laughed into the pillow. “Okay, that was all.”

“All what?”

“All I had to say.”

“I’ve learned a lot. I’m glad you misdialed.”

“Well. Easy mistake to make,” she said. “Might do it again.”

A very, very long pause. She opened her mouth to fill it, then changed her mind and didn’t. She was shivering again, even though she wasn’t cold with the pillow on her legs.

“Shouldn’t,” Gansey said finally. “But I hope you do.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue