rita's book journal

“Portugal. That was where I’d heard the word saudade before. It wasn’t easily translatable. A kind of longing, a nostalgia, a sense of incompleteness, not just romantic but existential, rooted in the very fabric of our people. It had suited Arden. Portuguese was the tongue of melancholic dreamers, of lonely poets.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“I will become whatever I have to for everyone else. Not for you. For you, I am as I am, every damaged, deranged part of me.”
― RuNyx, The Syndicater

“The cruelest fate the gods and stars had ever written: the person I loved most in the world was the person who would ultimately destroy me.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“If a hero is someone who will give up love to save the world, then a villain is the reverse. Someone who will give up the world to save love.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates