All That Is
Why mortals bloomed like flowers and crumbled to nothing? Why their absence left a gnawing ache, a hollow void that could never be filled? And how everything they once were, that spark within them, could be extinguished so completely yet the world did not collapse under the weight of so much pain and grief.’
Jennifer Saint • Ariadne: The Brilliant Feminist Debut that Everyone is Talking About
Your life can’t be a debt, she’d countered once, or then it’s not really yours, and nothing has been saved.
Maggie Shipstead • Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller
Talking about love is one of the grand traditions of being alive: what it means to fall in and out of it, how to keep it, how to grieve it, how to live for ourselves and toward another .1
Evana • Birthday letters (III)
The problem, she’s starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you up right before you drop the final inch so that you cannot blame him for sending you there. He keeps you in a dinerlike purgatory instead, waiting and hoping and taking orders. He