Isabella

“We are the children of gods and angels.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“In the east," she says after a time, her gaze still downcast, "there is a tradition known as kintsukuroi. It is the practice of mending broken ceramic pottery using lacquer dusted with gold and silver and other precious metals. It is meant to symbolize that things can be more beautiful for having been broken."
"Why are you telling me this?" I ask.
At last she looks at me. Her irises are polished obsidian in the moonlight. "Because I want you to know," she says, "that there is life after survival.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“I can bear ugliness, I find the only thing I cannot live with is death.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“Sometimes we're not who we want to be because we're supposed to be something else.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades