Mel (thebookishmel)

“Because the things that mattered most never really left. The love stays. The love always stays, and so do we.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“I don't have to be invincible," said August, shrugging him off. "I just have to be stronger than everyone else.”
― V.E. Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“There comes a certain point with a hope or a dream, when you either give it up or give up everything else. And if you choose the dream, if you keep on going, then you can never quit, because it's all you are.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing