Ashlyn Holbach

“Keep your warm hearts, your gentleness, and your courage. These will do just as well as magic.”
― Mary Norton, Bedknob and Broomstick

“I'm so sorry," he whispered to her, knowing she couldn't hear. I'm so sorry."
Her mouth moved, working to speak, and he leaned in to make out what she was trying to say.
"Me ... too," she whispered. "I only ever ... cared for...”
― James Dashner, The Death Cure

“Oskar knew people would catch that trolley anyhow. Doors closed, no stops, machine guns on walls—it wouldn’t matter. Humans were incurable that way. People would try to get off it, someone’s loyal Polish maid with a parcel of sausage. And people would try to get on, some fast-moving athletic young man like Leopold Pfefferberg with a pocketful of diamonds or Occupation złoty or a message in code for the partisans. People responded to any slim chance, even if it was an outside one, its doors locked shut, moving fast between mute walls.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

“Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine”
― Ursula Hegi, Floating in My Mother's Palm