forever undone

“Grief is a strange beast. Some battle it, their souls scarred from its abuse. Some bury it, and live life waiting for it to reemerge. And some tread water, the grief a weight about their necks. Every reminder makes the weight heavier.” She turned halfway, her face in profile. “You and I tread water, nephew. And I would not see you drown.”

books I read in 2026 - the adventures of amina al-sirafi by shannon chakraborty To be a woman is to have your story misremembered. Discarded. Twisted.

The way some women so willingly compromised every ounce of themselves in the name of building a life for themselves that they didn’t enjoy.

Lionesses. Us. Can't you just see it Ellie? Someday, you and me — we'll do great things. We'll live life for ourselves. And we will help others. We are cubs now, maybe. But we will grow to be lionesses. Strong women who will make things happen. - THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN by Marjan Kamali

Trying to give N.K. Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” series some dynamic covers, because the current ones absolutely do not do the books justice!

"That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times."

“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”

we're not here to be sophisticated. we're here to fuck people up.

the winternight trilogy by katherine arden

"Don't be afraid to love someone. When you fall in love, I want you to fall in love all the way. Even if it ends in heartache, please don't live a lonely life without love. I've been so worried that because of what happened, you'll give up on falling in love. Love is wonderful. I don't want you to forget that. Those memories of people you love, they never disappear. They go on warming your heart as long as you live.”

Being able to control your emotion — having the foresight to understand the consequences of your actions and choosing a less destructive path — is one of the gifts of being human.

“Life is not perfect, individuals will always be flawed, but empathy – the sheer inability to see those around them as anything other than people too – conquers all, in the end.”

“He's right: we belong. In a way I don't understand, he's mine, and I'm his. It doesn't matter what the last page says. That's the truth. Here, now.”

“Humans. For the most part, you are dull and blundering. But occasionally, you can be remarkably bright creatures.”

A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others. - THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum

life is a puzzle with no answer; a game with no rules; a maze with no exit, except death. and still we stumble on through the dark, creating form where there is none, seeing patterns that are not there.