Ana

“If I can just learn how to hold on to this feeling, this one I'm having now — if I could just discover how to focus on this happiness, enjoy the moment, not wonder about where the next high is coming from — then everything will be alright.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“People are users. It’s a universal truth. Use them, or they’ll use you.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“It hurts,” he whispered.
“What does?” asked Kate.
“Being. Not being. Giving in. Holding out. No matter what I do, it hurts.” Kate tipped her head back against the tub. “That’s life, August,” she said. “You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn’t matter if you’re monster or human. Living hurts.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“But the teacher had been right about one thing: violence breeds.
Someone pulls a trigger, sets off a bomb, drives a bus full of tourists off a bridge, and what's left in the wake isn't just she'll casings, wreckage, bodies. There's something else. Something bad. An aftermath. A recoil. A reaction to all that anger and pain and death.”
― Victoria schwab, This Savage Song