Ashley

“But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“Seneca’s line “Let the wickedness escape . . . for every guilty person is his own hangman.”
― Karen Mack, Freud's Mistress

“Fine, blood was thicker than water. But friendship, it struck Tibby, was thicker than both.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor,’” he said. “‘I see the better way and approve it; I follow the worse.’ Publius Ovidius Naso.”
― Karen Mack, Freud's Mistress