Ash

“I never thought that freedom would feel so much like grief.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Gilded Ashes

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“Love is madness,” I say. “Doesn’t everyone agree that you’d do anything, endure anything, to be with the ones you love? So either you’re willing to let them use you with any sort of cruelty, so long as they keep you—which makes you a fool—or you’re willing to commit any cruelty, so long as you get to keep them—which makes you a monster. Either way, it’s madness.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Gilded Ashes

“We were not made to please princes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic