Kai Norris > Kai's Quotes

“It is a strange, tenuous place to exist, one that falls somewhere between wanting what he can't have and having what he shouldn't want, and he doesn't know how to navigate it.”
― E.L. Massey, All Hail the Underdogs

“What was school if not a chance to earn your worth? To prove, again and again, that you were measurably good. One more deal I struck with a disinterested universe: If I'm good enough, I'll be happy. I'll be loved. I'll be safe.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“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

“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

“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

“I can't imagine what it's like to have to educate everyone about your right to exist in the world.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“Logically, I'd always known she'd chosen her parents, but seeing that choice play out cut like a dull knife.”
― Rebecca Yarros