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Suivre les rêves et fuir les vœux 💫

Ok, I am ✨OBSESSED✨

« She was a study in contradiction. Competent, bu lost at the same time. Quick to smile, but also quick to frown, every emotion clear in her eyes. »

« what good is a soul, really? […] It lives in the mind. A piece you cannot see or touch. A prize you are told to shield for a time you cannot know. Easy enough to part with something so abstract when the alternative is freedom. When the promise is love. »

« It is easy, isn’t it, in retrospect?
To spot the cracks. To see them spread.
But in the moment, there is only the urge to mend each one.
To smooth the lines.
And keep the surface whole. »

« Death comes, and sometimes it is kind, and often it is cruel, and very rarely it is welcome. But it comes, all the same. »

« She is not a lily or a rose. Not a flower ready and waiting to be picked. She is still growing wild at the edges […] »

« The world will try to make you small. It will tell you to be modest, and meek. But the world is wrong. You should get to feel and love and live as boldly as you want. »

« Reading as much as Charlotte did, she knew there were words, and words between words, ones that hid in the spaces, the pauses, the breaths. They hung on sentences, weighed them down with all the things that were not being said. »

« The hunger lives inside us all. To some it is an empty bucket. To others, a yawning pit. And yet. No matter how shallow or how deep it feels, here is a truth that will either drive you mad, or bring you peace. » he sits forward. « There is no filling it. You will never be sated. It does not matter whether you drink a carafe or drain a city. The hunger will not ease. »

« it drives her mad, the idea that the shape of her body determines the shape her life must take.
That her beauty is something she is expected to pass on instead of keep.
That anything she makes will thrive while she is left to wither. »

Savouring EVERY chapter of this book 😮‍💨🤌🏻

« A name is like a dress. It might be by nature pretty or plain, but it is the person wearing it who matters most. »

« fear and fun could be neighbors, right? »

FINALLY reading this little gem 🥰

« The things that left never stayed gone for good -not really. The things that mattered always returned. Just maybe not in the way you expected. »