#ya

He invited me to his apartment in the wee hours one morning and pulled out a set of children's building blocks. It seems he used to ride around and around on the Yamanote Line with them, building castles on the floor of the train. ↗

— Ryū Murakami

#japanese #japanese-literature #train #yamanote #japan

Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old. ↗

— Helen McCarthy

#film #hayao-miyazaki #japan #japan

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#people #ya #forever

It figured--the almost invincible girl gets hurt, and they call a vet. ↗

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#young-adult-urban-fantasy #ya

We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever. -Tōshirō Hitsugaya (Bleach) ↗

— Tite Kubo

#toushiro-hitsugaya #separation

It pained her that a few hundred words in an also-ran newspaper could get her kicked out. That damned article. And Rook. Her sharpest agony. She had invested in this guy. Waited for this guy. Felt something for this guy that went beyond the bedroom ... or wherever else they took each other. Nikki did not give herself easily to a man, and this betrayal by Rook was why. Heat reflected on her answer at the oral boards about her greatest flaw and admitted her reply was a mask. Yes, her identification with her job was total. But her greatest flaw wasn’t overinvestment in her career. It was her reticence to be vulnerable. Unarmed as she was-literally-she had been emotionally so with Rook. That was the gut shot that had blown clean through her soul. ↗

— Richard Castle

#flaws #hurt #introspection #realization #relationships

My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold. ↗

— Christine Fonseca

#psychological-thriller #ya #thriller

He smiled. "we go inside." "I'm going to get tetanus in there." I grumbled. "Don't go rolling in piles of dirt and rusty nails and you'll be fine." "You're an ass. ↗

— Courtney Allison Moulton

#angels #ya #ya

Forever. He carved the word into his soul. Kiera was his forever, deformity or no deformity. ↗

— Christine Fonseca

#psychological-thriller #ya #thriller

Well, you should have a chat with your boyfriend, clarify your desires. Hate to break the news, but, uh, he’s cheatin’ on you. Tell him I said my dog kisses better than him and he hits like a girl. ↗

— Courtney Vail

#suspense-thriller #ya #thriller