Despo Iosifidou

“your pain is not my pain, but I know its shape. I am sorry for it.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

“It was worth living a difficult life, if you had a great aim like that.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“I was not afraid of emptiness. It made me feel small. Barely worth a first glance, let alone a second. And there was comfort in that, because so often I worried that I was capable of causing too much damage.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“The world is full of cowards, she thinks, and it turns out that sometimes the opposite of cowardice is playfulness.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night