Ashley

“Ah, so you’re not a werevampire.” “Do not be foolish,” he yelled, angrily, looking up at me. “There is no such thing as a werevampire.” His eyes glittered with anger. “Yeah,”
― Elle Casey, The Changelings

“I was free, liberated. For a second there I even considered burning my bra.”
― Cookie O'Gorman, Adorkable

“From the moment you’re born, people start folding you into neat pieces and tucking you inside a box of their own design. No, it starts even before then, the moment the sonogram shows a faded blur. Blue for a boy, tractors and race-cars, big and strong and brave. Pink for a little princess, pretty and sweet. They dress you up in their own expectations, before you even have a chance to understand the constrictions of your fate. That box becomes so cosy and warm, you never really notice that you’re bent double, fighting for room to breathe.”
― Abigail Haas

“I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury