Ashley

“She was a woman who knew who she was and how she had gotten there.”
― Lisa Mangum, The Forgotten Locket

“I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.”
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

“I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They define you by what you do, by what your actions say about you. And coming here, despite your parents, says a lot to them- and me. And they're Americans first. They don't see you as the enemy. They see you as a person.”
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet