Ashley

“What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“They wanted to rock, they wanted to roll, they wanted to feel the peculiarly human feeling of having a perfect night in an imperfect world.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-"
"The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad.
"If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself."
He nods in understanding.
"And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?"
I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty