Alexxa Owen

“What did you think about?" I wish I could tell him that I thought about him, but I lied to him once and I won't do it again. And besides, I wasn't thinking about Xander either.
"I thought about angels," I say.
"Angels?"
"You know. The ones in the old stories. How they can fly to heaven."
"Do you think anyone believes in them anymore?" He asks.
"I don't know. No. Do you?"
"I believe in you," he says, his voice hushed and almost reverent. "That's more faith than I ever thought I'd have.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“If there's one thing I know, it's that there's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines