Ivy

“There was this one weekend, a million summers ago, when I sat on the shore drinking a frozen limeade, and I realized the only thing I wanted to look at was the way the sun hit the girls swimming in the lake.
The problem has always been this: When I look at you, I taste lime, and I see light on water.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“Bravery wasn't an identity, so much as a choice.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“He kept running. Sometimes, after all, that's what must be said to make a hero: the willingness to keep running even after it becomes clear that the entire exercise is doomed to failure. Sometimes heroism is pressing on when the ending is already preordained.”
― Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down

“Girls hunger. And we’re taught, from the moment our brains can take it, that there isn’t enough food for us all.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls