Alexandra

“You're mine and I'm yours. It's written in the stars.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“I am an echo of a sound made a lifetime ago.”
― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists

“They created a strange tableau: rabid boy, trapped girl, bombed-out building. It suggested a tale that could only end in tragedy. Star-crossed lovers meeting their fate. A revenge story turned in on itself. A war saga that took no prisoners.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“He was always leaning on something, like he couldn’t bear to hold all his own weight upright for more than a second or two. He lounged, he sprawled, he hunched and reclined. He never simply stood or sat. In college, I’d thought he was lazy about everything except writing. Now I wondered if he was simply tired, if life had beaten him into a permanent slouch, folded him over himself so no one could get at the soft center, the kid who dreamed of running away on trains and living in the branches of a redwood.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read