Bethany Rutledge

“It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception

“My chest clenched as I looked down at the oil-stained asphalt. Here but not. Existing but not living. I knew that feeling. Lived it for several years. Some days it felt like I was still wearing that feeling like a heavy jacket buttoned up too tightly.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever

“It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Passenger

“And maybe some people are like collages - no matter how broken or useless we felt, we were an essential part of the whole. We mattered.”
― Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There