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“Normal people think they’re happy, but that’s because they’re too dumb to know any different.
Better to be miserable and interesting, right, kiddo?”
mustard-colored skinny jeans.
Why
Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite proud of themselves.
normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach.
“We love until we do not. For us, love doesn’t fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.”
You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.”
“You said you loved me so many times,” Severin told him softly, and hearing him say that made Ben flush hotly. “But maybe what you loved best was your own face reflected in the glass.”
The only way to end grief was to go through it.
mortality is a bitter draught.”
Maybe the music could live again for him. Maybe he could love it the way he’d never let himself before, because it was too terrifying to love something he couldn’t control, because it was too awful to hurt people and love what hurt them.
Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.
