Ashley ❦

“She has known the tide and undertow of my feelings, my hurts, both small and large, for most of my life.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I am trapped inside a part of me I hate. A hard, masculine part of myself that has surfaced to fight, after small memories and scars come out of me with a suddenness that is sobering as well as horrifying-and I fight to save the Laura I wish I could be again. The one everyone thinks is still around. Me in a sundress, hair in the wind, and a smile engraved into my cheeks by the sharp fear that a man may visit me at any moment this evening and try to kill me.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“It wasn't over. The past could come back, fully formed, at any moment, unlocked by a random combination of sounds and movements.”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“It is at Dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away. I could live in everlasting Dusk.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead