Alexandra

“When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them. You want—"

He broke off then, as if realizing everyone was looking at him again.

"You want what?" said Dru with enormous eyes.

"Nothing," Julian said. "I'm just talking.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“The war brought ruin to Germany, but it couldn’t do any harm to these men. Lechner couldn’t suppress a smile. Fat will always float to the top.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Hangman's Daughter

“Perhaps all books have something magical about them, she thought. Just letters on a page that turn into images, scenes, and conversations in our minds.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Play of Death

“Voltaire once said? ‘History is the lie commonly agreed upon.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Ludwig Conspiracy