Grace

“God had not yet answered, but Ronan respected the reticence. Fathers were not always there. They had other things to do.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Greywaren

“And finally, after nearly everyone had gone to bed, Ronan and Adam lay on their backs on one of the roofs and watched the stars get brighter. Without taking his eyes off the sky, Ronan reached out his hand to Adam to offer him something. It was a ring. Without taking his eyes off the sky, Adam put it on.
They sighed. The stars moved overhead. The world felt enormous, both past and future, with their slender present hovering in the middle.
It was all very good.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Greywaren

“Memories brought madness with it; and when I thought of what had passed, a real insanity possessed me; sometimes I was furious and burnt with rage; sometimes low and despondent; I neither spoke nor looked at anyone, but sat motionless, bewildered by the multitude of miseries that overcame me.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“He filled a pipe with the tobacco that he had smoked for the last six years, and watched Romance wither.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice