Kaijah

“The simple thing would be to say that I love you. But, in truth, it’s so much more than that. I want you, America. I need you.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“To every person in search of somewhere to belong who happened to pick up this book, I hope you found a place in here, even if just for a few pages. You are loved. I wrote this for you. Keep fighting, keep making history, keep looking after one another.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Aspen Leger,” he said, testing the words. “Get out of my sight before I send you to New Asia to die.” Aspen’s breath caught. “Your Majesty, I—” “GO!”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“She philosophically noted dates as they came past in the revolution of the year. Her own birthday, and every other day individualized by incidents in which she had taken some share. She suddenly thought, one afternoon, that there was another date, of greater importance than all those; that of her own death; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it?”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles