Castles of Air

“Everyone says “I could just kill so-and-so,” and yet few do anything about it.”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer

“He looked at the side of her face, at her pensive mouth, her clever eyes. He couldn’t bear it anymore. “June, what am I to you?
The breeze made her flutter her eyelashes low. “What do you want to be to me?”
“Everything,” he replied. “I want to be what makes you smile when we come home to each other and I want to be what makes you settle under a full moon and I want to be what makes you wild when I’m gone and I want to be what makes you laugh when I’m inside you and I want to be what makes you weep when I die and I want to be everything else in between and I want to take you out into the world and see it with you, but if it has to be here, then here is where I land.”
Words rarely came easily to Tucker, but they didn’t stop coming then, breaking through the surface until there were no more left. He wanted her to know. He wanted every part of her to know, in a thorough way, in a way that left no room for doubt.
June whispered, “Then that’s what you should be to me.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Listeners

“In the name of stability and security, they condemn only the violence that challenges the status quo, never the violence that perpetuates it.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Heavenly Tyrant

“In that moment, dear sponsor, I believed there was no challenge so big that I couldn’t find a way to fail at it.”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer