“‘You are the foundation that helps me stand. You are my walls and my roof. My shelter. You are my home.‘
His lashes swept up, the amber of his eyes churning wildly. ‘As you are mine, Poppy.‘”
#December2025
“I want to be at home, cosy in my favourite set of pyjamas, making my way through a box of chocolates and watching an old Christmas movie.”
#November2025
“He chuckles, cradling the mug between his gnarled hands. ‘Maybe Santa‘s elves. Or you have yourself a helpful stalker.‘”
#November2025
“We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don‘t mind, I‘m going to bed.”
#November2025
“Let‘s make a deal that we don‘t borrow tomorrow‘s problems today.”
#November2025
“Here is something I learned in Empis: good people shine brighter in dark times.”
#October2025
“Wasn‘t that what life was about? To know and be known. To offer encouragement to others and share the burdens we all face. No matter the color of one‘s skin, weren‘t we all supposed to care about each other?”
#October2025
“The next time you go out, wear better shoes and thicker clothing. Those slippers are likely to be the death of you, and that dress…the death of me.”
#September2025
“Tell me you hate me, and I‘ll still count every heartbeat, every freckle, every shiver of your body, if only you say it with a smile.”
#August2025
“I always wondered how something could shine so bright, even while being swallowed in darkness.”
#August2025
“For every girl who has ever felt powerless.”
#August2025
“Yes, he thought maybe he mattered after all, a lesson in the unexpected. Wasn‘t that the point? Wasn‘t that the great answer to the mystery of life? To make the most of what you have while you have it, the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. In death, Wallace had never felt more alive.”
#July2025
“I would do it a thousand times over, heart; you should know that. I will choose you over the world every single time.”
#July2025
“Destiny, Vera thinks, is something to be hunted down and grabbed tightly with both hands and shaken until it gives her exactly what she wants.”
#July2025
“I‘ve been stabbed a thousand times…but none of that hurts more than hearing you say goodbye.”
#July2025
“That was the moment I knew I loved you, he had said. When that arrow went through your heart, and it might as well have gone through mine.”
#June2025
“I‘d be your king, but always your servant. Never your keeper.”
#June2025
“‘There once was a girl,‘ he murmured, ‘clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a King-a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same: the girl, the King…and the monster they became.‘”
#June2025
“Remember you are stronger than the dark, and you have the wings to fly.”
#May2025
“Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.”
#May2025
“‘You might be psycho,‘ I say with a grin as her eyes narrow, ‘but you‘re my psycho, and I‘m yours. Got it?‘”
#April2025
“…they might think grief should be determined by the amount of time you had with someone, but that isn‘t true at all. Grief isn‘t based on someone‘s length of presence. It‘s based on the impact of their absence.”
#April2024
“We can do as we please, if we only learn not to care so much about what people think.”
#April2025
“One person‘s pain doesn‘t negate another‘s. Our heartaches are not competition, but the bridge to empathy. So that we can look at one another and know that on some level, we understand.”
#March2025
“We stood there, four generations of Farrow women, cursed to live between worlds. But in that moment, in the valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains, we existed only on one.”
#March2025
“Thank God for girlfriends. In this crazy, chaotic, divided world that was run by men, you could count on the women.”
#March2025
“We must be very, very certain of this,‘ Ana told them. ‘If we join the resistance, we may lose our lives.‘
‘And if we do not,‘ Bartek replied, ‘we may lose our souls.‘”
#March2025
“You can‘t cut off the strings of your puppet and still expect it to move for you.”
#March2025
“If you tried, you could shine brighter than the fucking sun. Instead, you‘ve chosen to sit back and wither.”
#February2025
“Does it really matter if your cage is solid gold when you aren‘t allowed to leave it? A cage is a cage, no matter how gilded.”
#February2025
“Words are like stories…They change as they are passed from mouth to mouth; their meanings stretch or truncate to fit what needs to be said.”
#February2025
“There was nothing worse than having to feel sorry for people who had wronged you. You don‘t want lottery winds for your enemies, but you don‘t want tragedies for them either. Then they fit the upper hand. Damn those Delaneys.”
#February2025
“To the ones who don‘t run with the popular crowd, the ones who get caught reading under their desks, the ones who feel like they never get invited, included, or represented. Get your leathers. We have dragons to ride.”
#February2025
“You never know what your last words are going to be, so try to choose them all wisely.”
#January2025
“‘I‘m patient‘, he murmured. ‘A man can‘t rush worship.‘ And gods, that was what he was doing. Worshipping. He moved over me like his hands had moved over the piano keys, as if my every sigh or moan of pleasure was a symphony to be composed.”
#January2025
“‘And you won‘t do it for something trite as power or as easily satiable as greed,‘ he promises in a whisper, ‘but for the most illogical of mortal emotions—love. Or you‘ll die.‘”
#January2025
“One generation to change the text. One generation chooses to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history.”
#December2024
“Life is too short to miss the lightning strike and too long to live it alone.”
#December2024
“That the beginning and the end may have been chosen for us, the string already spun, but the middle had always been left undetermined, to be woven and shaped by us.”
#December2024
“Our task is to pay attention…To listen to the stories. We want all political backgrounds, all religious attitudes. The illiterate and the elite. Every ideology. Interview everyone. Learn about their lives. I need the best minds here to help.”
#December2024
“‘I‘d spend a lifetime at the tip of your blade, and it would have been worth it.‘”
#November2024
“A dead lover can never break your heart.”
#November2024
“‘That‘s the key isn‘t it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it…that‘s the most important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder.‘”
#November2024
“And in the end, though, we‘d saved each other. All of us had.”
#October2024
“It‘s a rare person to face who they are and not run from it - not be broken by it.”
#October2024
“‘It‘s hard.‘
‘What is?‘
‘Being alive.‘ Arthur agreed. ‘But perhaps that‘s the point:the trials and tribulations of life weigh heavily upon us, but we find people to help lighten the load.‘”
#October2024
“What I saw in his stare made my heart skip. It was utter devotion. I clasped his cool cheeks. ‘How did I get so lucky to have your love?‘
‘You weren‘t lucky, liessa.‘ Ash‘s lips brushed mine. ‘I was.‘”
#October2024
