Madalena

“Maybe we’re like the cherry blossom, Rune. Like shooting stars. Maybe we loved too much too young and burned so bright that we had to fade out.” She pointed behind us, to the blossom grove. “Extreme beauty, quick death. We had this love long enough to teach us a lesson. To show us how capable of love we truly are.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“There are so many things that can break you if there's nothing to hold you together.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong.”
― Mary Balogh, Slightly Dangerous

“There is truth in dreams, but especially in nightmares.”
― James Patterson, The Private School Murders