Ceara

“Other nights, when he thought I was already dreaming, he slid out of bed, took his coat and shoes, and disappeared into the dark outside. I never asked where he went, worried he wouldn’t ask me to follow.”
― M. L. Rio

“There is, I believe, in every disposition, a tendency to some particular evil; a natural defect which not even the best education can overcome.’
‘And your defect is to hate everybody.’
‘And yours’, he replied with a smile, ‘is willfully to misunderstand them.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I shifted and my shoes squeaked on the mirror. James turned and caught my eye. But I stayed where I was, afraid to move toward him, afraid I might lose my footing on solid ground, detach from one of the anchored me before and drift out into the void a space - a vagabond, wondering moon.”
― M. L. Rio

“You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night