Ashra

“No me llores, porque si lloras yo peno, en cambio si tu cantas yo siempre vivo, y nunca muero. Don’t mourn me, if you cry for me I grieve your pain, instead if you sing to me I’ll always live, and my spirit will never die. “LA MARTINIANA,” A MEXICAN FOLK SONG”
― Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys

“That's the thought that haunts the hunter-barque. If the vessel is lost, if all hands fall into the skies, then there's nobody to know what happened to you. Nobody to tell what beast or what machine or what act of indifferent nature or merciful divinity sent so many souls to their death.”
― Alexis Hall, Hell's Heart

“It's hard not to be obsessed with what could happen, but I should really just have the attitude of, what already has happened, if that's all I get, that's enough and I'm grateful.
I mean, it's not. But I am.”
― Jesse Andrews, The Haters

“And I told her that’s a silly goal, because fifty books is too many!” Beatrice cuts in, smacking Lauren’s shoulder with a folded newspaper. “What’s she doing, reading fifty books? Watch some damn TV. That’s what I say. Doctor’s orders.”
― Jake Maia Arlow, How to Excavate a Heart