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“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

“There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a princess in a fairy tale, waiting at the top of her tower for someone to ride up and rescue her.
Not that traditional princess behavior was like Isabelle at all. Isabelle with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Sometimes you have to give up something you are to get to who you want to be.”
― Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

“She has no idea how pretty she is—or what kind of problems her beauty will cause for her at a place like Blackcliff. The wind pulls at her hair again, and I catch her scent—like fruit and sugar.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“For tonight, maybe we can just be Laia and Elias.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Laia is the wild dance of a Tribal campfire, while Helene is the cold blue of an alchemist’s flame.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“She feels out the melody the way a blind man feels his way forward in an unfamiliar room.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“In a well-ordered universe...”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“don't get too close,
i'll turn you
into poetry”
― Orion Carloto

“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
― Olivia Wilde

“My soul sees its equal in you.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“I am too full of life
to be half-loved.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada

“Why all these paintings of you? Because I'm an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Apparently when it's two people, it's quirky and funny, but when it's a person doing the same stuff on her own, it's rebellious and antisocial.”
― Katie Alender, Bad Girls Don't Die

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“You are full, Laia. Full of life and dark and strength and spirit. You are in our dreams. You will burn, for you are an ember in the ashes.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Every woman has a rape story, whether she has been sexually assaulted or not.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote