Aya

“Our people know these two things best: water and salt.
We cry when we run out of sweat, we sweat when we tired of cry.”
― Jacqui Germain, When the Ghosts Come Ashore

“Almost worse than the sorrow of missing her was the fact that Mom's death had revealed everything to be meaningless. So much of what I'd thought was true had turned out to be an illusion. I saw people around me living by these illusions— that love and safety could be counted on, that life had meaning and the future could be controlled— and I did not feel that I could ever again share their suspended disbelief. I was swimming against a strong, cold current: I could see them there, playing on a sunny beach, but I couldn't rejoin them. Continuing the struggle seemed not only incredibly painful but, even worse, pointless.”
― Sarah Perry, After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

“A lie only has power until the light of truth exposes it.”
― Tracy A. Malone

“Memories belong in the soil, in stone, in wind. They are the land's unseen meaning, such that touches the souls of all who would look – truly look – upon it.”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice