Violeta

“You know that history is mostly happenstance. Accidents piled on top of mistakes, a series of dice rolled in dim rooms by careless hands. It is not a lesson, until we learn it. It is not a story, until we tell it. And every story serves someone.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“The lesson is that one must ceaselessly, time and again, compose one’s being.”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“Sometimes the most mundane interactions create ripple effects downstream that we only decipher later.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Remain: A Supernatural Love Story

“she understood why her grandfather had taken her to the museum. That was the point of all those visits, from the start: for her to archive herself through the beautiful works he’d chosen for her, for her to archive mentally these treasures, and for them to remain forever her reservoir of colors and joys, should blindness catch up with her one day.”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel