Ash

“He thinks writing is also a kind of war, one you fight with yourself. The story is what you carry and every time you add to it, it gets heavier.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“As bad as your parents may be at their worst, they are the only parents you’ll ever have.”
― Scott Kelly, Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

“The pattern is fear leading to a word of consolation leading to a revelation.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul

“When I thought of my mother, it was always as a presence - a role, almost - and it was strange to be faced with a truth that should have been obvious, that she had been someone with her own dreams and aspirations, who had felt the same as I had, and who had once had a life that existed entirely outside of her relationship to me.”
― Alex North, The Shadows