Jessica

“Obviously I’m not romantically in love with you. But I realized that whatever these feelings are for you, I …” She grinned wildly. “I feel like I am in love. Me and you—this is a fucking love story! I feel like I’ve found something most people just don’t get. I feel at home around you in a way I have never felt in my fucking life. And maybe most people would look at us and think that we’re just friends, or whatever, but I know that it’s just … so much MORE than that.” She gestured dramatically at me with both hands.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“This thing you carry inside you, I don’t know what it is. I don’t know where you got it. But Harry, the past is the past. You are alive today. That is all that matters. You must remember, because it is who you are, but as it is who you are, you must never, ever regret. To regret your past is to regret your soul.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“Things don’t have to stay as what they started out as.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface