Erica

“Love isn’t conditional,” Ruth said. “It’s not dependent on jumping through hoops to please someone—and always failing. You can’t love someone if you’re afraid of them, Mariana. I know it’s hard to hear. It’s a kind of blindness—but unless you wake up and see clearly, it will persist throughout your whole life, affecting how you see yourself, and others too.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“Things don’t have to stay as what they started out as.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“Ruth always said that forgiveness could not be coerced – it was experienced spontaneously, as an act of grace, appearing only when a person was ready.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“The Rebel Queen may have perished at Zandilov, but her daughter was alive and well, and free of Zandilov after ten long years.
The Rebel Princess was finally ready to rise.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer