Peyton

“I will never understand the savagery of war, even when it is my foes being destroyed.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

“Maybe the crew would realize they were wrong about him after some time passed. After all, they were just following his lead, treating him like he asked them to.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“This—” she taps my chest over my heart, “what you’re feeling right now—is the best thing that can happen to you. Because when all the pieces of your heart start to come back together, and they will, they’ll be stronger. And much tougher for someone to pierce.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“she remembered a time several years ago when she had felt so intelligent and young and powerful that she almost could have achieved such a thing, and now she knew she wasn’t at all powerful, and she would live and die in a world of extreme violence against the innocent, and at most she could help only a few people. It was so much harder to reconcile herself to the idea of helping a few, like she would rather help no one than do something so small and feeble,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People