Carolina

“He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. A”
― Seneca, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“She believes Marianne lacks ‘warmth’, by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People