Emma

“For the ones who dream of stranger worlds.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as we have known you, were capital, like bales of cotton and sacks of sugar, and you were commanding, cruel capitalists, and the memory of this so strong, the experience so recent, that we can't quite bring ourselves to embrace this idea that you think so much of. As for hat we were like before we met you, I no longer care. No periods of time over which my ancestors held sway, no documentation of complex civilisations, is any comfort to me. Even if I really came from people who were living like monkeys in trees, it was better to be that than what happened to me, what I became after I met you.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic