Ashley A

“If the people around you don’t love or accept you just as you are, find new people. They’re out there.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds

“There are birds, and then there are other birds. Maybe they don’t sing. Maybe they don’t fly. Maybe they don’t fit in. I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather be an other bird rather than just the same old thing.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds

“I am the spark that will set the worlds afire. I am the hammer that cracks the chains.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I don’t want to do this. I can’t explain how badly I don’t want to hurt Julian. But when has what I wanted ever mattered? My people need this. Eo sacrificed happiness and her life. I can sacrifice my wants. I can sacrifice this slender princeling. I can even sacrifice my soul.

I make the first move toward Julian.

“Darrow …,” he murmurs.

Darrow was kind in Lykos.

I am not. I hate myself for it. I think I’m crying, because my vision is unclear.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising