“I am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want.”
― Daughter of the Pirate King
― Daughter of the Pirate King
“The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“To talk about memories is to live them a little.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“To have seen her so was worth a thousand years of burning to him. If he went to Hell for it, he only prayed God would not take away the memory.”
― For My Lady's Heart
― For My Lady's Heart
“It made me lonely. And when I say lonely, I mean the kind of loneliness that howls through you like a desert wind. It wasn't just the loss of people I had known but also the loss of myself. The loss of who I had been when I had been with them.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
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