Sasha

“How can you trust me, after what your own brother did to you?'

'Because he was false,' said Damen. 'and you are true. I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly.”
― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

“Your entire sense of self-worth is predicated upon your belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe. But you don't. Because we are the ants.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“I was surrounded by heaven. The sun, the moon, the earth, and all those living stars. They wen't static like in pictures taken from impossibly far away- they breathed, they glowed. They were future and past, possibility and memory. They were beautiful.
"I never knew there were so many," I whispered. We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Out deaths will mean nothing to them.
"I feel so small." No one replied. I wondered as I watched the stars, really seeing them for the fist time, whether they could see me, too.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants