✧ poppy ✧

“somehow it went from too soon to too late, without the right moment in between.”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A lock is like a woman,” he’d said blearily. “You have to seduce it into giving up its secrets.” He was one of Per Haskell’s old cronies, happy to talk about better days and big scams, especially if it meant he didn’t have to do much work. And that was exactly the kind of muddled wisdom these old cadgers loved to spout. Sure, a lock was like a woman. It was also like a man and anyone or anything else—if you wanted to understand it, you had to take it apart and see how it worked. If you wanted to master it, you had to learn it so well you could put it back together.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Fuck that. I'd rather be seen as a little rude than risk being taken to a second location.”
― Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers