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

“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

“Through all her years of knowing him, this is what she learned that night. He was an unhappy man. And unhappy men are dangerous.”
― Karen Mack, Freud's Mistress

“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles