Ashlee

“She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.”
― jonathan safran foer

“Whenever I see you, I am overcome with the urge to be rooted within you, to be buried deep so your body can nourish me.”
― Jacquelyn Frank, Jacob

“Then you must be willing to fight," Mircea responded. "Life is not a gift, Raphael; it's a challenge. Rise to it!”
― Karen Chance, Curse the Dawn

“I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.”
― Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book