Lauren

“The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.”
― Alison Croggon, The Naming

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Curse this world for what it does to the mothers, for what it does to the daughters. Curse it for making us strong through loss and pain, our hearts torn from our chests again and again. Curse it for forcing us to endure.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates