Areli

“The problem with people is they don’t spend enough time talking. They keep it all bottled up inside, expecting others to know exactly what they’re thinking. Sometimes it’s too painful to say the truth aloud, but how can we expect to get anywhere if we don’t?”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Siren Queen

“I took his hand and squeezed it, and it felt like the most right thing I had done in a long time. We sat there in the sand, holding hands like it was something we’d been doing all along. It started to rain, soft at first. The first raindrops hit the sand, and the grains beaded up, rolled away. It started to come down harder, and I wanted to get up and go back to the house, but I could tell Conrad didn’t. So I sat there with him, holding his hand and saying nothing. Everything else felt really far away; it was just us.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“How much do we have to show the people we love?
What pieces of my life do I have to lay bare, carve out, and put before her? Is it enough that I have pointed the way to who I am?”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“My role is the part of the distressed and exasperated prisoner, but even when playing a part, pieces of a person's true self can sneak through the cracks”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King