Mes

“Blink and you’re twenty-eight, and everyone else is now a mile down the road, and you’re still trying to find it, and the irony is hardly lost on you that in wanting to live, to learn, to find yourself, you’ve gotten lost.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Warden held out a hand. I shook it, then watched as he clasped my fingers to his chest. ‘Our equivalent of a handshake,’ he said, by way of explanation. ‘In some circles.’ ‘Suitably dramatic.’ ‘You consider me dramatic.’ ‘You own a gramophone, play the organ, and wear a cloak.’ ‘Touché.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“Don't you remember, she told him then, when you were nothing but shadow and smoke?
Darling, he'd said in his soft, rich way, I was the night itself.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“She was the woman who’d come here to ask about love. She was the woman who’d decided to change her entire life with nothing but a list. She was the woman who survived, every single day. She was Chloe fucking Brown, and she was starting to wonder if she’d been brave from the beginning. If she’d just needed to love herself enough to realize it.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown