grace ⧗

“In a few years, there would be a vague memory that a girl had once sung in the arena. And then that would be forgotten, too.
Good-bye, Lucy Gray, we hardly knew you.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Maybe I don’t know what fills it in yet, but I can look at the space around where I sit in the world, what creates that shape, and I can care about what it’s made of, if it’s good, if it hurts anyone, it makes people happy, if it makes me happy. And that can be enough for now.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“If you must die, I'll envy even the earth that wraps your body.”
― Albert Camus

“How does she explain that she used to be afraid to love anyone because there’s a well at the center of her chest and she doesn’t know where the bottom is?”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop