~☆starlight

“You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Books were the best way Nina knew – apart from, sometimes, music – to breach the barrier; to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Little Shop of Happy Ever After

“Because the greater the love, the more devastating the sense of betrayal.”
― Jill Mansell, Take a Chance on Me

“Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and other life events that took up every spare moment of their time, in case unpleasant thoughts intruded. But for Nina, whenever reality, or the grimmer side of reality, threatened to invade, she always turned to a book. Books had been her solace when she was sad; her friends when she was lonely. They had mended her heart when it was broken, and encouraged her to hope when she was down. Yet”
― Jenny Colgan, The Little Shop of Happy Ever After