Catherine L.

“I have killed and hurt. I have conquered and pillaged. I have done all of this in the name of my own desires, have done everything in life because of my own selfishness. I have always taken what I wanted, and it has never given me happiness. If I return to the surface, alone, I will forever remember this moment, the moment I decided to choose my own life over my sister’s. It will haunt me, even with Magiano at my side, until my death. What I saw for myself in my future is a future I cannot have, not with the past that I have already created. It is an illusion. Nothing more.

Perhaps, after all the lives I have taken, my atonement is to restore life to one.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“...his lips twitch up to flick the switch that lights the fire in my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Without her, I am less afraid of dying. Without her, the world is that much darker.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“His gaze lingers along the lines of my body, long enough to strike a match to the lighter fluid flowing in my veins. I ignite.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me