Ashlyn

“Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“You have a consistent character yourself and you wish all the facts of life to be consistent, but they never are. For instance you despise public service because you want work always to correspond to its aims, and that never happens. You also want the activity of each separate man to have an aim, and love and family life always to coincide––and that doesn't happen either. All the variety, charm and beauty of life are made up of light and shade.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina