Teju A

“Turns out, falling in love with someone only brings that blissful high all the poets talk about if they love you back. And if they keep secrets that jeopardize everyone and everything you hold dear? Love doesn’t even have the decency to die. It just transforms into abject misery. That’s what this ache in my chest is: misery.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“A king without a queen or pawns is just a piece of wood sitting on a board, Roman thought.”
― S.A. Cosby, King of Ashes

“In the concert hall of pain, I’ve moved from next to the speakers to the back of the venue.”
― Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

“Out here, she was reduced to a mere observer, a transient entity skirting the edges of infinity. The sensation of insignificance clung to her like a second skin. Her thoughts, grappling with the paradox of her significance.”
― Ron Jenkins, The Great Frontier: In the Beginning