Ashleigh

“You don't have to be right one hundred percent of the time to show you love someone. And she doesn't have to be perfect to be well loved.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“Still,” I said, “I am sorry. But I was desperate to rescue my sister.”
“I understand,” the sagging dragon assured me. He explained, “I, too, had a sister, once.”
The past tense didn't escape me. “What happened to her?” I asked, feeling we were connected, two of a kind after all, sharing similar personal tragedies.
“I had to eat her,” the dragon said, “to keep her from stealing my gold.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, Deadly Pink

“Feeling is the independent variable, the x axis. What, in the end, determines it all.”
― Kate Hattemer, The Feminist Agenda of Jemima Kincaid

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84