Ashten Kimble

“Gods are stupid and shortsighted. They’re like children.” She shook her head. “No. They’re worse. They’re like men—no sense of unintended consequences or follow-through.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“I shall not miss you, Mother. Perhaps I won’t even remember you. Does a flower remember its life as a seed? Does a phoenix recall itself as it burns anew? You will not see me again. I shall be but a shadow streaking across the sky—fleeting, speeding, and utterly gone.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“Even now, after all these years, she is a memory of a memory of a memory—her own kind of unsolvable, inscrutable knot.)”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“Let me fall if I must fall. The one I will become will catch me.” —THE BAAL SHEM TOV”
― Dani Shapiro, Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage