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“Love was an invitation into the wild unknown, one step at a time together.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Universal truths in butter. Secrets folded into the dough. Poetry in the spices. Romance in a chocolate. Love in a lemon pie.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Nothing lasts forever. Not the good things, not the bad. So just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Isn't it strange how the world works sometimes? It's never a matter of time, but a matter of timing.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“You are who you are, and you like what you like. You are you, and that's a lovely person to be.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“I didn't need to be fixed. I just needed...to be reminded that I was human.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“You kiss like you dance."
"Terribly?"
"Like someone waiting to be asked.
You can just dance, Lemon. You can take the lead.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“If you don't fit in, fool everyone until you do.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“I didn't find out who I wanted to be until I was almost 40. You have to try on a lot of shoes until you find some you like walking in. Never apologize for that.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't a quick drop - it was falling, over and over again for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new breath. It was uncertain and it was undeniably hard, and it wasn't something you could plan for.

Love was an invitation into the wild unknown, one step at a time together.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“He's gotten a lemon flower tattooed over his heart.
"what do you tell people, when they ask about it?"
His shyness melted into a smile, warm and gooey like chocolate. "I tell them about a girl I fell in love with at the right place but the wrong time."
A knot lodged in my throat. "And what are you going to tell them now?"
"That we finally got the timing right/"
"A matter of time," I whispered.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“She had always told me to chase the moon. To surround myself with people who would lasso it down in a heartbeat.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“I hated her for leaving, and I loved her for staying as long as she could.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“That was the thing about my aunt, she lived in the moment because she always figured it’d be her last. There was never a rhyme or reason to it—even when she was healthy, she lived like she was dying, the taste of mortality on her tongue.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“If you want something, you have to go for it. No one else will be more on your side than you.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“I’d gone through the worst day of my life by myself, and I came out the other side a person who survived it. That was not something to fix. I didn’t need to be fixed. I just needed . . . to be reminded that I was human.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“You can just dance, Lemon. You can take the lead.” “And you’ll follow?” “To the moon and back,” he replied, and I leaned forward, my hands pressed against his hard chest, and kissed him again.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“A book is a time capsule. No matter how much I change, or will change, or will learn, this book will be stagnant. It’ll exist here, forever unchanged, along with the pieces of me that I put into the pages.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“You’re both idiots,” he grumbled into their ears. “I don’t know why I love you. Frankly, I deserve better.” He then released them to place loud, smacking kisses on first Kiva’s and then Jaren’s cheeks, before saying, “No more lovers’ spats. My poor little heart can’t take it.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“We can look at the darkness and let it consume us, or we can recognize that it’s only temporary, trusting that once it passes, the light will return,”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Everyone deserves to have someone fight for them, even―and especially―when they're unable to fight for themselves.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Small steps are still steps.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“I can't change the past. But I can still be annoyed by it”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Life is worth living, even the parts that make us feel like we want to die.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“She didn't know what it was like when she wasn't there. The Sun doesn't know the night because it brings it's own light. And to Jacks, Evangeline was the Sun.”
― Stephanie Garber, The ​Mirror of Infinite Endings

“Jacks was not a fan of ringmasters.”
― Stephanie Garber, The ​Mirror of Infinite Endings

“You are mine, Little Fox, until my heart stops beating.”
― Stephanie Garber, The ​Mirror of Infinite Endings