Ash Reads Books

“She has this way of saying things that sound cheerful but they make me feel like I'm some kind of gross bug. Except bugs are actually cool and tragically misunderstood, so something worse than that. Like kale chips.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, Thirteens

“Jessica has a forehead scar from the deep end of a pool. I ask Jessica what drowning feels like and she says not everything feels like something else.”
― Angie Sijun Lou

“You don't build a labyrinth to keep something out. You build it so you can lie in wait.”
― Alison Ames, To Break a Covenant

“Some events are simply too gross to come back from.”
― Michael DeForge, Leaving Richard's Valley