Ashley

“Do not let your nerves and emotions lead you into thinking your predicament is more abnormal then it really is.”
― C.S. Lewis, Education and History

“It was strange to be having such a conversation with her Amaba, discussing their varied interpretations of the history. What had always seemed certain to Yetu wasn't so immutable. The living put their own mark on the dead. Goodness, how'd did she missed it?”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

“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