Ashley

“Perhaps it was the foolish boldness of girlhood, which makes us not fear the things we ought.”
― Ava Reid, An Archive of Romance

“The tragedy isn't the point", she said. "We read those books today because the romance is so enormous and true that we can't look away. It's not obliteration; it's a kind of expanding.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“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