Jenny

“And you don’t gain much in life if you never allow yourself to be vulnerable. Sometimes the best things in life happen when we open our hearts and give someone the opportunity to hurt us, and trust them not to, and they don’t.” “But what if they do?” “Then we learn not to open our hearts to someone like that again,” Janna said quietly. “But we don’t die.”
― Terry Bolryder, Bear-lebrity

“And if today had taught her nothing else, it had shown her life was too short to allow her to let other people make decisions for her. So what if this wasn’t long term? So what if it broke her heart? Better to have lived and felt pain than live safely and feel nothing at all.”
― Terry Bolryder, A Tiger's Destiny

“Please don’t die. You’re nice to look at.”
― Leia Stone, Fallen Academy: Year One

“Those of us with greater inner light attract the most darkness.”
― Leia Stone, Fallen Academy: Year One