“love isn’t meant to be like that, fixed and unrelenting. It needs room to grow, to make mistakes and turn into something new. It has to account for the living parts of yourself.”
― The Crescent Moon Tearoom
― The Crescent Moon Tearoom
“I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.'
'I live for you,' I say sadly.
She kisses my cheek. 'Then you must live for more.”
― Red Rising
'I live for you,' I say sadly.
She kisses my cheek. 'Then you must live for more.”
― Red Rising
“We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.”
― Tatiana and Alexander
― Tatiana and Alexander
“Maybe, in the end, that's all that love was - doing the hard thing. Not roses and valentines and walks on the beach, but simply being present, day after ordinary day. The extraordinary romanticism of ordinary life.”
― Honor
― Honor
“I would be Medusa, if it came to it, I resolved. If the gods held me accountable one day for the sins of someone else, if they came for me to punish a man’s actions, I would not hide away like Pasiphae. I would wear that coronet of snakes, and the world would shrink from me instead.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
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