Ashley

“Here’s the worst thing about having an enemy: they’re always in your head.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me

“There were some songs you made special—songs for first dances, songs for funerals, songs for heartbreak and forgetting. And then there were the songs that made you.”
― Ashley Poston, Sounds Like Love

“Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts, for no other reason than the fact that our skin doesn’t feel like it’s ours. Sometimes we panic, because the bills need paying and we have to be grown-up and we don’t know how, because it’s so horribly, desperately easy to fail at being grown-up.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“One of the most disorienting parts of parenthood is how it can warp your sense of time. Or maybe not warp. Maybe what children do is straighten time out. Like clock hands, they keep us ticking forward even as we try to apprehend the lines and circles of it.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years