Ivy

“Slow down, slow down,” Valec says, holding his hands out to grasp my shoulders. “You had to fail, Bree. You had to fall.” “Why?” I exclaim. “Because you had to rise.” He steps closer. “A true leader has to know every side of her battle: the wins, the losses, the enemies, the allies, the good, and the bad. And she has to know who has her back, without the titles and legacies.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed,”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw