“Love is not weakness, father: it is strength. Love is what taught my skin to feel and my eyes to see. Love is not a weapon: it is light.” LoveLightStrengthEyesGreek MythologyIcarus Book:The Light that Binds Us Source: The Light that Binds Us
“Millions of colors spring up from behind his eyelids, lighting up the dark world like a thousand urns pouring out of the sun.” LoveLightHealingSunColors Book:The Light that Binds Us Source: The Light that Binds Us
“He laughed suddenly, a rough, light sound that filled the small space effortlessly, and Kieran let himself say the words in his head, examining them at every angle, let his tongue curl around the syllables and taste them, around the eight vowels and fourteen consonants, without making a sound: If I am anything, it is light. They all tasted oddly familiar.” LightFreedomHealingSelf LoveSelf AcceptancePast Trauma Book:The Light that Binds Us Source: The Light that Binds Us
“That is what Lincoln saw in them, this love in all his friends, who held a close place in his heart, and Oscar, the one dream of his soul. He found it in them, in all of them, with their dirty pasts and their still recovering minds, in their words and in their friendship, and in their souls that spoke to each other in the mist of the clouds or the surging of the trees that knew that, in eternity, they would always find beauty. And that was an incredible world to wake up to.” LoveLightHappinessFreedomHealingBeautyFamilyMental HealthRecoveryLgbtq Book:The Light that Binds Us Source: The Light that Binds Us
“I live in sin.” The winged boy’s eyes had turned downwards, his soft mouth setting grimly with despair. “To kill myself I live. No longer my life my own, but sin’s; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.” LifeHeavenSinMankindDepressionFree WillGreek MythologyIcarusMichelangelo Book:The Light that Binds Us Source: The Light that Binds Us