Ayla

“For a long time, I wanted nothing more than to be ordinary. As we run through the changing paths of this maze, I realize I was never ordinary to begin with. We are built a certain way, and the only thing I regret is that it took me so long to see that.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost

“I've met my doom, and it isn't even breakfast yet.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“A candle unused is nothing but wax and wick," I said. "I would rather light the flame, knowing it will go out, than sit forever in darkness.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

“We fooled ourselves into thinking happiness was a gift we would be given time and time again. It’s so much scarier to admit that our lives are in our own flawed, fallible hands. Our futures are not kept safe for us in de cradle of fate. We have to hack them out of stone, dig them out of mud, and build them one messy, imperfect day at a time.”
― Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You