Aree

“There are poets who sing you to sleep
and poets who ready you for war
and I want to be both.”
― Ashe Vernon

“He saw that fear—knew it as intimately as his own. And he wanted to take it from her. To shoulder it, until she could breathe again.”
― Catherine Doyle, The Dagger and the Flame

“suppose I can’t decide which is better,” she confessed. “Being alone somewhere beautiful and free. Or being with the only people I’ve ever loved, here in the darkness.”
― Catherine Doyle, The Dagger and the Flame

“What they don’t tell you
about standing up for what you believe in
is that your feet will bruise
and your legs will ache.”
― Ashe Vernon