Dijana

“Fear is strange. It settles on chests and seeps through skin, through layers of tissue, muscle, and bone and collects in a soul-sized black hole, sucking the joy out of life, the pleasure, the beauty. But not the hope. Somehow, the hope is the only thing resistant to the fear, and it is that hope that makes the next breath possible, the next step, the next tiny act of rebellion, even if that rebellion is simply staying alive.”
― Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash

“Time doesn't stop or give warning. It simply ticks along, marking time, ignoring humanity.”
― Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash

“Our immortality comes through our children and their children. Through our roots and branches. The family is immortality. And Hitler has destroyed not just branches and roots, but entire family trees, forests. All of them, gone.”
― Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash

“Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer