“And you, Ronan,” Niall said. He always said Ronan differently from other words. As if he had meant to say another word entirely – something like knife or poison or revenge – and then swapped it out for Ronan’s name at the last moment.
“We are all stardust and stories.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“For those who feel homesick for a place they’ve never been to. Those who seek even if they do not know what (or where) it is that they are seeking. Those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Never before had there been a prince quite like him: born with his heart on the outside of his body.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― Babel
― Babel
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