The only character development that was consistent.
Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.
I don’t have a train of thought I have seven trains on 4 tracks that narrowly avoid each other when the paths cross and all the conductors are screaming
“You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”
— Richelle Mead (via amortizing)
“Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.”
— Stieg Larsson (via amortizing)
It’s such a little thing, this skirt. For other girls, maybe it’s makeup or a sport or having sex or not having sex or writing or music or kicking ass in school or wearing your hair so it looks like the sun’s unruly rays. I think every girl has a thing or two, tiny details in her life that say ‘This is me. I’m done hiding. I’m done feeling ashamed.’
— Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars
“A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.”
— Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
“The best promise you can commit to someone you love is you’ll never let them fall asleep thinking that they’re unwanted.”
— Juansen Dizon