Em

“I know I have no right to ask anything of you, but please... if your poor, stupid mother can ask one last thing of you... let me hold you one more time. Just one more time, you're going to let Kaa-chan hold you and treasure you the way i should have the day you were born. Then I'm going to let you go on with all my blessings. Is that alright?

Finawu said it was not good for a woman to touch the dead, but Takayubi's Finawu had all been lost in the tornado with their temple. There was no one to judge Misaki as she gathered her boy into her arms and settled down to hold him for the last time.”
― M. L. Wang

“He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it justice.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“i am water

soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey