Jess

“People don't change.'

'People change entirely,' I said. 'Look at Narcissus. Became a flower. I call that change.”
― Kamila Shamsie

“They were interesting things, stars. Like clouds, you could see them and could not deny their existence. Yet you couldn’t touch them, hold them, or own them. You couldn’t feel them. Love was somewhat the opposite, he pondered. It can’t be seen but it can be felt. It was intangible, like the stars and the clouds, like the heavens and destiny. Yet it existed, he knew this to be true.”
― Paige Elwood, The City of Love: A Medieval Time Travel Romance

“He could have had everything he wanted if he just reached out his hand and took it…but he could not. The warrior could never break the chains of fear in his mind.” She raised a withered hand and tapped the mummified skin of her forehead. “Do you see, Lord Ridmark? Chains of bronze and prisons of stone can be shattered. But a prison built within the mind itself can never be broken. Those who imprison themselves can never be freed.”
― Jonathan Moeller, Sevenfold Sword: Shadow

“I want something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live”
― Josh Homme