Ashlee

“A real diamond is never perfect.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“...the issue isn't so much what I want to be, but whether or not I can be it without hurting everyone else in the process.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“Well I am, now. But I wasn't always so ready to call it my home--when one feels displaced, it can take a while for the connections to grow. Once I was ready, it felt like I was part of a new song that I had somehow always known.”
― Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See