James

“Broken people don't hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“I learned years ago that it’s okay to do this. To seek out small spaces for me, to stop and imagine myself alone. People are too much sometimes. Friends, acquaintances, enemies, strangers. It doesn’t matter; they all crowd. Even if they’re all the way across the room, they crowd. I take a moment of silence and think:
I am here. I am okay.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“She drew so many monsters that she became a monster herself.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“But Gansey's words had somehow become unwitting weapons, and he didn't trust himself to not accidentally discharge them again.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys