Ashley

“Oh, you mean they're just people getting away early for the holidays to avoid the Rush?" said Maladict. "Sorry, I got confused. It must be that woman carrying a whole haystack we just passed.”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

“Long ago people thought they could turn lead into gold. They called it alchemy. The idea behind alchemy was to take something worthless and turn it into something of value. Forgiveness is alchemy. ... To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it something noble and fine. That is true alchemy.”
― Richard Paul Evans, A Christmas Memory

“What is belonging?” we ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

“What's a political?"
"Like a spy, but on your own side," said Maladict”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment