the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

Wylan: I heard Jesper's in jail, is that true?

Kaz: yeah, for something he didn't do

Inej: what didn't he do?

Kaz: run fast enough

If we don't have each other, we don't have anything. 

- S.E. Hinton , The Outsiders

“I think there are lives that make it easy to be good. Or what most people call good. When you have wealth, status, family, it’s easy to be a saint, it costs you nothing. I can’t say if you’re a good person or not. But the more I know of you, the more I understand that the world keeps making you choose between survival and martyrdom. No one should fault you for wanting to live.”

— Margaret Owen (Little Thieves | Little Thieves #1), first pub. 2021, USA

Les tragédies n’arrivent qu’une fois, les souvenirs les revivent éternellement. 

Hafsah Faizal, Chasseurs de flamme t. 1 (We Hunt the Flames)

VO :

Tragedies happen once, memories relive them eternally.

“Jes,” Wylan said, “did you mean what you told my father? Will you stay with me? Will you help?” Jesper leaned back on the pianoforte, resting on his elbows. “Let’s see. Live in a luxurious merch mansion, get waited on by servants, spend a little extra time with a budding demolitions expert who plays a mean flute? I guess I can manage it.” Jesper’s eyes traveled from the top of Wylan’s red-gold curls to the tips of his toes and back again. “But I do charge a pretty steep fee.” Wylan flushed a magnificent shade of pink. “Well, hopefully the medik will be here to fix my ribs soon,” he said as he headed back into the parlor. “Yeah?” “Yes,” said Wylan, glancing briefly over his shoulder, his cheeks now red as cherries. “I’d like to make a down payment.” Jesper released a bark of laughter. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d felt this good. And no one was even shooting at him.

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo 🐦‍⬛

― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

this quote says it y'all. <3

Geralt: From now on, we will be using code names. You can address me as Eagle One. Yennefer, code name: “Been There, Done That.” Fringilla is “Currently Doing That.” Regis is “It Happened Once in a Dream”; Dandelion, code name: “If I Had To Pick a Dude.” Milva is... Eagle Two.

Milva: Oh, thank the gods.

“If you punch me back, you will be sent home, Pixie.” I kick him in the shin.

— Red Rising by Pierce Brown

"You’re better than waffles, Matthias Helvar."

"Let’s not say things we don’t mean, my love."

-Leigh Bardugo (Crooked Kingdom)

“I am a monster, but whether you remember it or not, I’m your monster, Evangeline.” ― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“I already told you. You are the love of my life. You are mine, Jacks of the Hollow. And you’re not going to be the end of me.” “But you were dying.” “No,” she said, a little embarrassed. “I just forgot to breathe.”

“He would carry her through more than just freezing waters. He would pull her through fire if he had to, haul her from the clutches of war, from falling cities and breaking worlds . . .” ― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

Are they for real? Because I am truly in love with the way this couple breathes! Jacks is the love of my life ofc, but I think Evangeline is perfect for him... and if this book had ended any differently, I would have literally died...

I recently read this book and I was speechless... I actually cried... It's one of the best books I read this year and I'm so glad I ended my year with such a lovely story...

I just really really wish I find someone like Jacks... and I hope you too!

“You've no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they're not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn't give you that right. Having more weapons doesn't give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn't give you that right. Nothing does.”

- Sejanus, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“No need to hold back, Mal. He’s a big boy. Whatever you’ll dish out, Nolan can take it.” Her smile is faint. “He probably wants it.”

Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

I've loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn't change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have when I was a child. It grew with every new longing of my body and desire until there was not a piece of me that did not love him. And when I look at him, there is no other feeling in me.

- LAURA NOWLIN, If He Had Been With Me

“He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.” ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus.

Wren stares at him. "And if I send you away even after this speech? If I don't want you?"

He hesitates. "Then I'll go," he says. "And adore you from afar. And compose ballads about you or something."