Kelani > Recent Status Updates

‘After all, it was prophesied.’

“Azures don’t betray each other. We just emotionally blackmail one another into eternal friendship.” –Quinn

‘There was something strangely comforting in the idea of the lotus, both connected to the world and yet somehow free of it, balanced between heaven and earth.
It wasn’t just a flower. It was a promise.’

‘…Every nerve in my body shrieked in protest. My instincts screamed to pull away—to stop—to let go.
I didn’t.
Because this excruciating, blistering pain was better than the hollow, endless anguish inside me.’

“Your past may be your starting point, but your choices now define who you are.” –Edith

‘My world had become a colorful medley of pain.’

“You don’t need any of them. You have me now. If anyone bothers you, I’d be happy to eat them.” –Flame, Silver Tygress

‘Movement became music.
Music became breath.’

‘I had wanted to be free from everyone who tries to use me—and now I was. I was no longer anyone’s daughter; prize, sacrifice. Perhaps I was still a vessel, of sorts. But this time, I had chosen to be.’

‘I wanted it to go on forever.
So I ended it.’

“If power is a precious stone, then affinities are more like these little blooms; fragrant and lovely for a day, then fading into nothing.” –Priest

‘It seemed so wrong that I could feel so broken inside and look so unchanged.’

‘I felt we were having two conversations at once, and I was woefully ill-equipped to handle either of them.’

‘Curiosity, my mother said, was only profitable for the highly educated.’

“Magic, And coin. The two most powerful forces in the kingdom.” –Mieka

‘Names have a kind of magic.’

‘A child can be a boon, a blessing, a burden—or all three at once.’

“When a grief is this large, this unwieldy,
The sea is the only place where it will fit”
—Andrea Eames (the author)

“Dads are like that,” she said softly. “They’re the first kings we know, for better or worse.”
–Alice Storm

“You don’t like Picasso?”
“Cultural appropriation, hypermasculinity, misogyny… what’s not to like?”

“But your mistake is believing that love is an inherently good thing all the time.” –Alice Storm

‘Responsibility. She’s been raised on it—loyalty to family first, above all. No matter their selfishness, their chaos, their manipulation.
No matter the way they broke her down.
Responsibility was to others. Never to herself.’

“There are honest-to-God problems in the world. And here we are with an island full of people who can solve most of them. And they collect flags and lie about the Beatles.” –Gabi

‘It was a bad idea. But history was littered with women making bad decisions about men.’

“It’s always worth leaving when someone doesn’t want you to stay.” –Alice Storm

‘Wealth had a way about it, an ease that was difficult to explain but impossible not to recognize, especially if you’d spent your life around it. Though it came in many forms, from confidence to carelessness, it pervaded a person’s world view, was impossible to replicate, and incredibly difficult to hide.’