Vera

“People have an idea of pain," he said. "They think they know what it is, how it feels, but that's just an idea. It's a very different thing when it becomes concrete.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Falling in love with yourself is ten times harder than falling in love with someone else, especially when I don’t like myself very much.”
― Lauren Asher, Final Offer

“Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“How else would you get to live a thousand lives in the span of only one? The beauty of fiction is that it makes you feel things on a visceral level. You can cry with those characters, laugh with them. It teaches you to look at another’s perspective, to have empathy. In nonfiction, you simply learn about something instead of feeling it.”
― Liz Tomforde, The Right Move