Rephaïma

“The story of the ugly duckling was never about the cygnet discovering he is lovely. It is not a story about realizing you have become beautiful.

It is about the sudden understanding that you are something other than what you thought you were, and that what you are is more beautiful than what you once thought you had to be.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja

“Half of winning, my dear wallet, is simply looking victorious.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“You took the truth and you made it into flowers”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Wild Beauty

“Above, the stars faded behind the misty sky, and the sun fanned its light upon us. We melted into each other until the dawn slid into dusk, and the sun paled into the moon, and the stars, once lost, became found again.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Spin the Dawn