january

“You didn't get to choose what others did. The world could be chaos, and you still needed to find your way through it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Defiant

“Her tears had released her emotions, painful as splinters of glass, but necessary, too. She couldn't claim she felt well, but at least she felt.”
― Christelle Dabos, La Tempête des échos

“May you have the courage someday to walk away. And the wisdom to recognize that day when it arrives.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places
in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the
error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could
go, rather than somewhere you had to be left.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea