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

“A snake can shed its skin a hundred times, but it will always remain a snake.”
― Amanda Lee Koe

“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

“She says, "Accepting someone as they are may mean also that you have to accept that they can't be what you want them to be and I think that is really hard for us. We want to make people be what we want them to be.”
― Ira Madison III, Pure Innocent Fun: Essays