Alyssa

“She laughed for his sake, something she’d never done. Giving away another piece of herself just to have someone else.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“To say that is to say we have no choice at all in what we do, how we live. I don't believe that, Uncle. Perhaps we do have a short span in this world [...]; perhaps our scope is somewhat limited. But within those limits we do have the power to change things, the power to make choices and to go where we must.”
― Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“I'd have to be pretty damn silly to think that people had rights to other people's love; in my life I've earned more love and got less than anyone I know.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Bird's Nest