Allison Pole

“Destiny, Vera thinks, is something to be hunted down and grabbed tightly with both hands and shaken until it gives her exactly what she wants.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

“what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn

that since day one
she's already had everything she needs within herself
it's the world that convinced her she did not”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“hand you the right storybook, and you are capable of anything”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales