Ashley Cruse

“I don’t really want to be cheered up,” she said. “I just . . . can you stand in the darkness with me?”
― Jill Santopolo, More Than Words

“If forever doesn’t exist,” she said, “we’ll invent it ourselves.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“That the beginning and the end may have been chosen for us, the string already spun, but the middle had always been left undetermined, to be woven and shaped by us.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“My house. My chair. My woman.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame