You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.
- Madeline Miller, Circe
I am not lost;
I just don't wish to find.
not anymore...
I remember you.
- the invisible life of Addie LaRue by V.E Schwab
What's meant for you will be all yours at the end. The constellations are in your favour, so my little star-bright, what are you worried about?
"The old gods may be great, but they are neither kind nor merciful. They are fickle, unsteady as moonlight on water, or shadows in a storm. If you insist on calling them, take heed: be careful what you ask for, be willing to pay the price. And no matter how desperate or dire, never pray to the gods that answer after dark."
- the invisible life of Addie LaRue by V.E Schwab
live your life now. don’t save clothes for a time you’re happier in your body, don’t put off adventures because you think your friends would be happier without you there, don’t deprive yourself of good things just because you can’t see the good in yourself
Memories are a curse; I want to remember you no more.
But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don’t share it there’s a good chance that it will drive them apart instead.
- Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
When Sylvia plath said, "why can't I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming" ; and when Ocean Vuong said, "you would tell them that the most useful thing one can do with empty hands is hold on" jwjwuwjwwjwbbevevegehbe im gonna go overdose on chai now, bye.
“You have always been the worst of my children,” he said. “Be sure to not dishonor me.”
“I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.
- Madeline Miller, Circe