Ali

“It’s much easier to give advice about other people’s lives than it is to navigate your own.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Ilya opened Instagram and started typing a new private message to ShaneHollanderHockeyPlayer.

Shane
You are the best thing in my life.
I love you. Always. Maybe from the first time I saw you.
I am thinking only about you right now. A million memories. Thank you for those.
Whatever happens, I am with you. Safe in your heart. I believe it.

He did. Ilya only had vague ideas of the afterlife and any gods who may be waiting there, but he believed his soul would stay with Shane, however it could. He believed the people you loved stayed with you until it was your time to go. He often felt his mother with him, and he knew he’d do the same for Shane.”
― Rachel Reid, The Long Game

“Just when I’d thought I could no longer be surprised by the ignorance, foolishness, and poor judgment of men, they continued to prove me wrong.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“The price of love was loss. We all paid it eventually.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy