Ashley Fox

“There is this … rage,” she said hoarsely. “This despair and hatred and rage that lives and breathes inside me. There is no sanity to it, no gentleness. It is a monster dwelling under my skin. For the past ten years, I have worked every day, every hour, to keep that monster locked up. And the moment I talk about those two days, and what happened before and after, that monster is going to break loose, and there will be no accounting for what I do.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Whenever I’m scared out of my wits, I tell myself: My name is Sam Cortland … and I will not be afraid.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“sense. It doesn’t even stop when the person you love dies. It does what it wants.”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“Happiness is so hard to come by. I don’t understand why anyone would begrudge anyone else for managing to find some of it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere