Ashley

“Whoever said that love hurts was wrong. Love is excruciating, especially when you can feel it slipping through your fingers and there is nothing you can do about it. Like someone was playing tug-of-war with my limbs, ripping to shreds whatever was left behind. What it would feel like when love was lost...I wouldn't survive that”
― Julie Hockley, Crow's Row

“You'll probably die if you stay with me,' he told me.
'Then I'm dead either way, because I won't survive without you.”
― Julie Hockley, Crow's Row

“Sometimes,when life gets hard, and people make you angry or even when you're scared, the best response is laughter.Laugh in the face of fear, in the face of what scares you the most.It's the only way to get you through the things that bring you to tears.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Bet

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero