Ashley

“He grabs me and wants me and owns me and needs me, and I let myself fall into him, get lost in him, cling to him, and kiss him back with breathless disbelief. This man is mine. All mine. The way he makes me feel, he couldn’t be anything else.”
― Talia Hibbert, Work for It

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“How lucky I have been that so much of my pain is from fearing the loss of what I already have, instead of suffering the absence entirely, as Ciaran did.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin