courageous pages

Justice seemed so little, so late.

You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.

He kept regular hours, avoided any human interaction more complicated than afternoon tea, and read for exactly thirty minutes before bed.

Her tone, as always, was deeply sarcastic. It was one of the things Elliot liked best about her.

He had not thought about how dangerous it would be, to have all his dreams come true.

You pretended to hate him because you were a coward. But you eventually loved him, and he is a part of you now, because you have since grown brave.

There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both--taken and taken and taken, until there's nothing left but hope, and you've given that up because it hurts too much.

It gives him power, but what good is power if it comes on a spiked leash?

Something to remember, Syen, for when you make your own choices in the future: Some of them come with a terrible price. And sometimes that price is worth paying.

She doesn't want to go back, not even for the end of the world.

The decision not to leave your crown where it had fallen was the hardest decision you had ever made.

You do not need to solve all the world's ills in one fell swoop.

It is a hazard of the profession, arrogance. You can change the world, and so you begin to think you should.

I went to sit at the feet of the Sun. I went to learn what I might learn, and from the house of the Sun I have brought home the fire.