Hayden

“Kids can always tell the difference between adults who want to empower them, and adults who want to overpower them.”
― Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

“We don’t give up on our people. We don’t stop loving them.” She looked into my face, her eyes watering at the bottoms. “Not even when we’re burning alive.”
― Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

“wear. It doesn’t take long for children to teach themselves not to want what they’ve already learned they won’t have. I couldn’t find a good enough reason to torture myself by acknowledging my futile desires for more stuff.”
― Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

“Feeling any of it felt like the beginning of losing control, and losing control felt like certain death in my body, if not my mind. If I didn’t process the feeling, I wouldn’t feel it, and if I didn’t feel it, it couldn’t kill me.”
― Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter