Emily

“My heart wasn't big enough to hold everything I felt, but I couldn't bear the thought of asking him to wait while I caught up.”
― Jodi Meadows, Incarnate

“What I want." I slid my hands over him until cloth folded between my fingers. "I don't even know what that is. It feels like too much, but I'll fall apart if I don't get it.”
― Jodi Meadows

“Las cosas nunca son como a primera vista las figuramos, y así ocurre que cuando empezamos a verlas de cerca, cuando empezamos a trabajar sobre ellas, nos presentan tan raros y hasta tan desconocidos aspectos; tal pasa con las caras que nos imaginamos, con los pueblos que vamos a conocer, que nos los hacemos de tal o de cual forma en la cabeza, para olvidarlos repentinamente ante la vista de lo verdadero.”
― Camilo José Cela, The Family of Pascual Duarte

“she’s not pretty, that word is too small. She is not like the girls I used to stare at, all bend and curve and softness. She is small but strong, and her bright eyes demand attention. Looking at her is like waking up.”
― Veronica Roth, Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene