all things quotable

I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.

But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.

Father, I am what you made me. I’ve become your daughter after all.

By you, I am forever undone.

"But perhaps this is what it means to be a hero, giving everything for the shimmer of temporary glory."

There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.

I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.

Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home.

I feel like I could eat the world raw.

I am forever your most devoted believer.

To me, the one basking in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is ‘you’, and not the state of you.

"You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature."

I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance.

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

We are children of tragedy.

If Dain isn't going to give me power, then I am going to take it for myself.