Ana

“I know it hurts," she said. "So make it worth the pain.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“People are complicated creatures, my dear. The ways they find of explaining the bad things that happen in the world are not always the right ones. Sometimes they are simply the easy ones. They are the ones that give them enough comfort to sleep at night, the ones that let them take the blame off themselves.”
― Natalie C. Anderson, City of Saints & Thieves

“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down