Ayra

“There comes a point in your life when you have to choose between having regrets and the possibility of making mistakes. I'd rather make those mistakes than live without ever taking a chance, because I've missed out on too much already. Taking chances can be like walking through a mudslide, where every inch of you gets stained, but regrets are the stagnant pools of deprivation, and I've been wading in them for far too long.”
― Raven Kennedy, Gleam

“When you hit rock bottom, you feel it. You break down, walls crumbling until you're free-falling. The feelings that you tried to run from suddenly rush up around you in an unstoppable force, the gravity of your thoughts now nothing but a punishing plunge. When you slam into the bottom, that landing jolts you all the way to your very soul. You hit hard, and it cracks the very foundation of the world. The ground fragments beneath you, lines stretching far and wide. And then you're left, a pile of rubble. But I realize as I lie here, surrounded by the destruction of my plummet. These cracks that have spread out from my caustic landing, they're not evidence of my ruination. They're paths.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glow

“I know you feel like you've been given no choices in life. But every day, there is a choice to keep going, to face the future head-on or not. Every day, there is a choice to be honest with yourself or to lie. One will be the hardest thing you've ever done, and the other the easiest, but there is always the opportunity for choice if you don't take the easiest path.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Fire in the Flesh

“I think too much value is given to forgiveness when it's easier to forgive but far harder to forget. That understanding and acceptance is far more important than forgiving someone. I understand why he lied. That doesn't mean I agree with it or that it's okay, but I have accepted it, and I've moved on. We've moved on.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The ​Crown of Gilded Bones