“I have so little. To a beggar, even scraps become a feast.”
― Will Wight, quote from Unsouled
“The son of a cripple might be a cripple, but the son of tigers won’t be a dog.”
― Will Wight, quote from Unsouled
“Only storms turn fish into dragons,”
― Will Wight, quote from Unsouled
“The very idea beggared his imagination, but that only meant his imagination was too limited.”
― Will Wight, quote from Unsouled
“It's the what if? The what then? And we know that if we go for it, if we risk it, we immediately stand to lose it. But weirdly, some part of us believes the feeling is two-way, because it must be; it's too special not to be. We believe that something's been shared, even if the evidence we have is ... what? A look that lasted a breath longer then we're used to? A second glance, when the glance could easily have been to check whether there are any cabs coming, or whether the jacket we're wearing that's caught their eyes would look good on their boyfriend, or why it is we seem to be staring at them.
I saw you. You don't use overhead handles on the train. Hoped it would jolt and you would fall to me. But no.
I smiled. These small moments, never said out loud, as formed and perfect as sweet little haikus, romance and longing carved out in the dust of a grubby city.”
― Danny Wallace, quote from Charlotte Street
“But wanting something didn't give one the right to have it.”
― Rachel Vincent, quote from Menagerie
“He looked up and I realised how close we were, both of us leaning in together. I blinked a few times, suddenly light-headed, but not like before when I'd passed out. Being so close to the smooth dark skin of his face, getting lost in the shifting shades of his green eyes, it felt like my insides were fluttering and melting.”
― Heather Anastasiu, quote from Glitch
“You think I didn't choose these clothes and this haircut specifically to avoid being stuffed into one pigeonhole or another? I'm gender fluid. Not stupid”
― Jeff Garvin, quote from Symptoms of Being Human
“Fine," he says, his words coming out breathless. "I'll save your precious sword-master, McKenzie. But I will never, ever give you back to him.”
― Sandy Williams, quote from The Shadow Reader
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