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

“Beliefs and myths are tied so closely together that you're never sure which is tale and which is true.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I imagine these drops of rain hitting the scales of the sandstone fish I carved for Vick. Every drop helps the poisoned stream, I think, holding my hands out open wide. Not catching the drops or trying to hold them. I'm letting them leave their mark and then letting them go.
Let go. Of my parents, and the pain of what happened to them. Of what I failed to do. Of all the people I failed to save or bury. Of my jealously of Xander. Of my guilt over what happened to Vick. Of worrying about what I can never be and who I never was in the first place.
Let go of it all.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“It's hard to explain, but I lose myself in others if I'm too focused on their feelings and desires for too long. They start to become my own, and I forget who I am. It's terrifying.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King