Violet Perry (Just a Bookish Blog)

“Have you ever been hurt by someone you loved, Carpenter, but loved that person anyway?"

"Indeed, I have."

"And? Was it worth it?"

"Every single time.”
― Rachel Hauck, To Love a Prince”
― Rachel Hauck, To Love a Prince

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“We forget sometimes that parents--even uncles--have lives of their own. Worlds of their own. Sides of themselves we never see and never dream are there. Even when someone describes those lives to us, we can't believe them. We know better.”
― Julianna Deering, Rules of Murder

“Maybe it took the ugly things--the ashes, the scraps, the dirt--to grow the beautiful things.”
― Grace A. Johnson, Prisoner at Heart