Ashley

“I told myself that that was perhaps how, in the time of the humans, people said goodbye to the body of a cherished lover, by trying to engrave them in their memory.”
― Jaqueline Harpman, I who have never known men

“When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water; they transform. It becomes vital to ask: Is this a metamorphosis or a homecoming?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Whether you survive the ocean or you don't, whether you are lost or whether the waves deliver you back to shore- every story is told in the language of water, in tongues of salt and foam. And the sea, the sea, it whispers the secret of how all things end.”
― Ava Reid, An Archive of Romance

“One remarkable thing about communities built along roads is that you can find just as many reasons for leaving them as excuses to stay. Some people never quite stop devoting themselves to one or the other. .”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here