Ailee Ballard

“You should’ve seen the way he was looking at you while you were out.”
I smiled a little. “How?”
“Like you're the ocean and he's desperate to drown.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men