Ashley

“The glorious imprecision of language, the impossible endeavour of saying what you mean to another. She sees, with benevolent distance, how hopeless and winsome it is to be in this skin. How human it is to attempt a futile expression of your innermost secrets to another by vibrating strings in your throat to make an avalanche of sentences. To laugh, to sing, to cry out loud. How we all wish so badly to be heard.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Sister Snake

“And now you come here to tell me all the ways we let you down? No, I’m sorry, darling. You’re too old to be blaming your parents for your problems. That get-out-of-jail-free card has expired.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“When you're young, you marry someone who has the qualities you wish you had...As you grow older, one of two things happens. Either you start to find those difference increasingly annoying and you grow apart, or...you gradually become more like the other, even as you remain who you are".”
― Ina Garten, Be Ready When the Luck Happens

“Most people are not Carries. They are Mirandas or Charlottes, people who have a lot of rules that prevent them from finding love but eventually meet the right person and all those rules are thrown out the window.”
― Ira Madison III, Pure Innocent Fun: Essays