Ana

“She felt as if there were a glass ball in her chest- something delicate and beautiful that might shatter if she said the wrong word, if she disturbed the balance in any way.”
― Lauren Oliver

“You can't say, 'This is just a stage' when its important to people what they're feeling. Maybe he'll outgrow it someday but right now it's important.”
― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

“And in the end, he would become a memory, pressed in my heart like a leaf in my book.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“The Bravery was in moving forward, no matter what. Someday, she might be called on to jump again. And she would do it. She knew, now, that there was always light--beyond the dark, and the dear, out of the depths; there was sun to reach for, and air and space and freedom.

There was always a way up, and out, and no need to be afraid.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic