Ash Perez

“There’s no life-work balance. Okay? Get it? It’s all life. You get the same twenty-four hours as the next girl. Fill yours with what you love.”
― Lucy Score, The Christmas Fix

“So you have two choices. Wallow in it, stay in the chokehold of guilt and shame that holds you back from the next phase of your life”—she taps the pad with the pen—“or decide you’ve punished yourself long enough for things you can never change and set a date when you’ll forgive yourself and move forward”
― Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go

“I shouldn’t. It’s too late. I won’t act on it, but this traitorous ache I’d nearly forgotten roars at me from dusty corners, peers from the shadows and reaches for me through finely spun cobwebs. It’s wild and hungry. If I’m smart, I’ll starve it, deny it, because unlike before, it won’t be satisfied.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go

“You have to make peace with that woman, Yasmen, because she is you. She’s not someone you banished with therapy and meds. She is you. You cannot dissociate from her. Until you reconcile that, you won’t find true peace. Until you have compassion for her instead of judgment, you cannot fully heal.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go