Howl’s Moving Castle

Howl’s Moving Castle is unique in the sense that it’s like a setup for a sitcom: it takes characters that have the same problem – Howl, Sophie, Markl, Calcifer and even the Witch of the Waste are people who don’t want to take responsibility for where they are in their life, and don’t want to move on — essentially they don’t want to grow up

Vicious by VE Schwab

But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so? Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls – which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one’s burned tongues and skinned knees, that one’s aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that’s why we’re so anxious to lose them, don’t you think?

Spirited Away

Chihiro is the 10-year old protagonist of the movie. Chihiro is in the process of moving to a new town when her family stumbles upon the entrance to the spirit world. During her adventure she matures from a whiny, self-centered, and pessimistic child to a hard-working, responsible, optimistic young girl who has learned to care for others.

Ace of Shades

“Now, as she held her breath and desperately searched the faces of strangers around her, she felt that she was more broken than not. One exhale, one sob, and all her pieces would shatter.“

Amy + Laurie — Little Women

Well. I’m not a poet, I’m just a woman. And as a woman I have no way to make money, not enough to earn a living and support my family. Even if I had my own money, which I don’t, it would belong to my husband the minute we were married. If we had children they would belong to him not me. They would be his property. So don’t sit there and tell me that marriage isn’t an economic proposition, because it is. It may not be for you but it most certainly is for me.

Avatar: the last airbender posters (3/5)— katara

You Make On Step Backward, One Slip-Up, Give Me One Reason To Think You Might Hurt Aang, And You Won’t Have To Worry About Your Destiny Anymore.

Avatar: the last airbender (2/5) — Sokka

“Good inside him isn’t enough! Why don’t you come back when it’s outside him too, okay?”

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe for @dreamtheif (bc they have been emotionally compromised)

— I wanted to tell them that I’d never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world, people who looked at the stars, and knew the mysteries of water, and knew enough to know that birds belonged to the heavens and weren’t meant to be shot down from their graceful flights by mean and stupid boys. I wanted to tell them that he had changed my life and that I would never be the same, not ever. And that somehow it felt like it was Dante who had saved my life and not the other way around. I wanted to tell them that he was the first human being aside from my mother who had ever made me want to talk about the things that scared me. I wanted to tell them so many things and yet I didn’t have the words. So I just stupidly repeated myself. “Dante’s my friend.

Modern day [Elizabeth Bennet] from pride and prejudice

“I shall not.”

[Aaron Minyard] - a Monster

Andrew’s group was scattered around the living room. Aaron and Nicky were half-dunk into matching beanbag chairs as they played a video game. Kevin was reading a magazine at one of the desks, and Andrew was sitting on the desk closest to the window so he could smoke.

[Kevin Day] - The Queen

Aaron Snorted. “Kevin would kill himself if he heard that.” “Kevin thinks we are a waste of oxygen.” Nicky said with a shrug.

@exysource​, game #3: favourite characters; Kevin Day

~ “We’re all going to die.” Kevin said at last.

Renegades by Marissa Meyer

There’s no rule that says you have to be a prodigy to be a hero,“ she insisted. "If people wanted to stand up for themselves or protect their loved ones or do what they believe in their hearts is the right thing to do, then they would do it. If they wanted to be heroic, they would find ways to be heroic, even without supernatural powers.

All for the Game by Nora Sakavic

“This is your night. This is your game. This is your moment. Seize it with everything you’ve got.”