“She tasted like buried treasure and swing sets and coffee. She tasted the way fireworks felt, like something you could get close to but never really have just for yourself.”
― The Beginning of Everything
― The Beginning of Everything
“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
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“I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There’s a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we’d never say in the light.”
― Ignite Me
― Ignite Me
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