On the one hand, deciding to do a herringbone pattern probably increased the floor renovation project time by 4-5 hours. On the other hand, my library floor is going to look bomb as hell (just as soon as I run to Home Depot for more flooring because I ran out 😬). We’ll do black grout in here as well. And once the floor is done…I can start building bookshelves 🎉🎉🎉
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And so they did what their people had always done before Death's beautiful face. They bowed.
A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
John Green (via quotethatword)
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Better to believe that there was nothing at all. Then, all of the world's inadequacies were simply mere chance. Not caused by a god who had failed them.
Sanderson, Brandon. The Age of Heros
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The world will be saved and remade by the dreamers.
Maas, Sarah J. Empire of Storms
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You collect scars because you want proof that you are paying for whatever sins you’ve committed. And I know this because I’ve been doing the same damn thing for two hundred years.
Maas, Sarah J. Heir of Fire
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He'd chosen his weapon well: only the truth, untempered by kindness.
Stiefvater, Maggie. The Raven Boys.
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Love. Like clothes, I had guessed it was something that fit no two people exactly the same way.
Class, Kiera. The Crown
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'There are good days and hard days for me - even now. Don't let the bad days win.'
Maas, Sarah J. A Court Of Mist And Fury
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but... it would have been nice, she supposed. It would have been nice to have one person who knew the absolute truth about her - and didn't hate her for it.
Maas, Sarah J. Heir of Fire
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They all asked the same questions and promised help, but each of them left me in the same condition as they found me - broken.
McGarry, Katie. Pushing the Limits
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How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
Yancey, Rick. The 5th Wave
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Inside I flinch. Outwardly, I smile.
Charbonneau, Joelle. The Testing
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How do you pour the weight you feel crushing your chest into two little words? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I'm sorry wasn't enough.
Bracken, Alexandra. In the After Light
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You could rattle the starts. You could do anything, if you only dare.
Sarah J Maas. Throne of Glass
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'I began to forget what it was like to be an ordinary human.'
'We’re not ordinary humans.'
Zachariah looked up. 'Oh, we tell ourselves that,' he said. 'But I have made a study of Shadowhunters now, over the past century, and let me tell you that we are more human than most human beings.'
Clare, Cassandra. City of Heavenly Fire
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