Mes

“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

“Sometimes you just have to feel bad about a thing. Sometimes that's the only thing that makes you human.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“He was probably the worst kind of monster because Chloe was sick, but he still thought she was unbelievably sexy. Then he remembered that she was always sick, so maybe poor health wasn’t something that should de-sex a person.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“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