Kat Baines

“Addie straightens, lifts her chin, smiles with an almost defiant kind of joy.
'But isn't it wonderful,' she says, 'to be an idea?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“It seems blue, once considered the color of degenerates and barbarians, has conquered the world.”
― Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

“Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did.”
― Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

“Nothing is all good or all bad," she says. "Life is so much messier than that."

And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it.

Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow?

Were the moments of beauty worth the years of pain?

And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says, "Always.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue