Kai Norris

“To hear his name in her voice, he closes his eyes. The name has become so precious to him, his own name, from the way it sounds in her mouth.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“I suppose intellectualizing our experiences is just another way to depersonalize them. Strip them of pain we would otherwise feel, and replace it with pain we can merely think about.”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“They fit together like a habit. Like an inevitability. Like a gift. Like a death sentence.”
― E.L. Massey, Free from Falling