Ashlee Braun

“life can be so fucking cruel and hard, and I’ve wanted to quit living it so many times, but then moments like these remind me that happiness isn’t some permanent thing we’re all trying to achieve in life, it’s merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“We all needed that selfless person, someone willing to jump into our own darkness and drag us out of it—even when they get nothing in return.”
― Boo Walker, An Unfinished Story

“Even broken hearts must mend eventually.” “But aren’t they forever scarred?” “Scars are where we are most durable.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Words We Whisper

“Her continued devotion in the face of all that had happened amazed me, but at this point I had concluded that I no longer shared her faith in a God who controlled the universe like a puppet master pulling and tugging strings and making us all dance. Our lives, I believed, were more like billiard balls on a pool table, ricocheting randomly with the impact of the cue ball.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell