#elofb

“You'll be a rumor. A whisper. The thought that wakes the bastards of this world sweating in the nevernight. The last thing you will ever be, girl, is someone's hero.”

“The sea does not like to be restrained.”

“Il lui dit : « Je ne vous en veux plus. »  Elle comprit qu’il lui en voulait encore” 

“The age of exploration is long over, amira. Now it’s the age of globalization. And once everyone agrees something is one way, all the other ways it could have been disappear.”

“My heart isn't simple or straightforward. It's a complicated mess of wants and needs, boys and girls: soft, rough, and everything in between, an ever-shifting precipice from which to fall.”

“The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.”

“She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.”

“We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.”