ASHLEY

“loneliness was better than disappointment.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Adults always think they can protect children by stopping them from going to dangerous places, but every teenager knows that’s pointless, because the most dangerous place on earth is inside us. Fragile hearts break in palaces and in dark alleys alike.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“And sometimes you fall in love that way, when you’re drowning in a world of pain.

It’s not a happy love.

It’s just whoever manages not to hurt you all the time. You think they must be the best the world has to offer. The little window of time you aren’t in pain can seem like happiness.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“don’t have words for mourning people when their souls leave us long before their body is gone.”
― Allison Larkin, Home of the American Circus