Juliette

“I can handle pain.” I turn toward her. “I live in pain. I practically built a house there and set up a whole economy. I can take whatever they dish out.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Love doesn’t even have the decency to die. It just transforms into abject misery.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I do think that there are moments that change you, moments that tell you that you can never go back to where you started and you don’t want to go back to whoever you used to be because you have become someone else.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“No one asks to be born. And no one wants to die. We don’t bring ourselves into the world, and when it’s time for us to leave, the decision will not be ours to make. But what we do with the time in between the day we are born and the day we die, that is what constitutes a human life. You will have to make choices—and those choices will map out the shape and course of your life. We are all cartographers—all of us. We all want to write our names on the map of the world.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World