Ashlyn

“I would care that someone understood we were flawed and scarred and doing the best we could in this war. We were wrapped up in things that were so much bigger than ourselves. We didn't know. We didn't mean to. It wasn't our fault.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“Sometimes hope can be poisonous.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted