Vayla

“Everything has strings attached. Unintended consequences. The shove from behind that you never saw coming.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“A weird thing I'm learning about grief - grief in all its forms - is that you can feel almost everything once. You'd think all those tears, all that laughter, all that deep sadness and even deeper hope would still the lungs and stop the heart.
But no. It's sort of the opposite.
And that's the funny thing about wishes - only when one comes true do you realize the full scope of that wish. What you really wanted. The beauty of it. The complexity.
The cost." -Grace”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How to Make a Wish

“A quiet realization would be more poetic—something as quotidian as showing back up. Choosing each other when there's no fanfare.”
― Emery Lord, The Map from Here to There

“Sometimes you just jump and hope it's not a cliff.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue