Ashlee jones

“They all want a part of it. A part of the pain that's not theirs. Nod their heads. Wrinkle their foreheads. Now they want to pity it, gorge on my pain. And when they're done or bored or too sad, they whisk themselves away to stare at a screen or stuff their fat faces, thinking 'How lucky am I to be me.' And they they forget the pain and say we should be good citizens. Get a job. Assimilate..

They planted us in stones, watered us with pain, and now marvel how we have thorns.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

“Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

“Trust is when we plummet into the depths of an abyss and reach out for each other’s hands.
—Amaderan Poetry, various authors”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites