Ashley

“When you're a girl, people think your beauty is their possession.”
― Jessie Burton, Medusa

“I'd been scared of other people's power my whole life, never mind my own.”
― Jessie Burton, Medusa

“I thought of what it might mean to have a boy admire you, not for how you looked, but for who you were. For your thoughts and your deeds, your fears and your dreams. Was such a miracle to be my inheritance?
To know I was treasured, adored and celebrated; to be allowed, encouraged to shine, to feel perfect in the majestic mirror of someone else's gaze - could such a life ever be mine?”
― Jessie Burton, Medusa

“Self-awareness is a great banisher of loneliness.”
― Jessie Burton, Medusa