Teodora

“You will realize that if you did not have the exact experiences you had just as you had them, you would have missed out on the essential lessons, tools, and pieces of wisdom that built you into the person you are today—the person who will keep walking you forward.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year

“Jolly’ is about slapping on a smile and making the best of what you’ve got. It’s the fleeting moments of joy, and laughter, and dogs pushing trollies outside Lidl, that all of us can notice and celebrate. Happiness is in the small things. So stay ‘jolly’.”
― Helen Russell, The Atlas of Happiness: the global secrets of how to be happy

“New year’s eve had failed to leave behind it the usual calamitous trail of fatalities, as if old atropos with her great bared teeth had decided to put aside her shears for a day.”
― José Saramago, Death With Interruptions

“The clouds shifted, unblocking part of the moon, and light spilled across the tower, illuminating part of Rhys’s face. It appeared grimmer than it had a moment ago. Even so, he was beautiful. Not in a perfect, Greek god sculpture kind of way but in a pure, unabashedly masculine way. The dark stubble, the small scar slashing through his eyebrow, the gunmetal eyes…”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Games