From the Bookshelf of think later, read now ୨୧…

“I’d rather be the villain who lives to the end than the hero who winds up dead”

“I’d rather be the villain who lives to the end than the hero who winds up dead”

“The neglected ones, the unlucky ones, the ones who want more than they've been given, the ones who have to crawl and scrape and fight their way up from the very bottom, who have to game a system designed for them to lose. Always the first to be punished and blamed when things go wrong. Always the last to be seen, to be saved.”

“I sneak a peek at his Spotify playlist, half certain it’ll be all just white noise or classic orchestral music, only to find Taylor Swift’s latest album playing instead.”

"You know," I muse out loud, "if it weren't for the fact that we were against each other's guts, we'd probably make an impressive power duo."
I expect Henry to raise his eyebrows at me as usual or make a cutting remark, but his footsteps suddenly slow beside me.
"Wait. We hate each other?"

“Alice?” He says my name like a question.
“You can see me?” I ask in surprise.
"𝐍𝐨. 𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞."