#grecdidthat

I wanted to tell them that I'd never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world, people who looked at the stars, and knew the mysteries of water, and knew enough to know that birds belonged to the heavens and weren't meant to be shot down from their graceful flights by mean and stupid boys. 

"Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.” 

“We are all someone's monster.”

“Because you don't think I'm a bad person," he said. "And I don't want to prove you wrong.” 

people shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper

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

But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.

no, i beg him. it is his own death he holds, his own blood that will spill. he does not hear me.