Mar

“Her sabah savaştığım,karmakarışık saçlarımı düşünüyorum.Yaşamım boyunca,dolaşık saçlarımı fırçalayıp açmak için saatler harcadım ama saçlarımı ne kadar özenle tutamlara ayırmaya çalışsam da hemen dolaşıveriyorlar.Açılması olanaksız bir hale gelinceye kadar birbirlerine giriyorlar.Bazen makası kapıp oracıkta düğümü kesmekten başka elden bir şey gelmiyor.Ama insanlardan oluşan bir düğümü nasıl kesebilirsiniz ki?”
― Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“This is a bad idea," moped Adrik.
"I have a surplus of bad ideas," said Nikolai. "I have to spend them somewhere.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Did you know that the light from our nearest star takes four years to reach us? Which means when we see it- when we see any star- we are really seeing what it looks like in the past. All those twinkling lights, every star in the sky, could have burned out years ago- the entire sky could be empty this very minute, and we wouldn't even know it.”
― Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish