Ash

“It was a town mostly populated with elderly John Wayne fans and their caregivers.”
― Lark Benobi, The Book of Dog by Lark Benobi

“She was powerful
not because she wasn’t scared
but because
she went on so strongly
despite the fear.”
― Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars

“I moaned then, tilting my head back to give him better access. His hands clamped on my waist, then moved—one going to cup my rear, the other sliding between us.
This—this moment, when it was him and me and nothing between our bodies …
His tongue scraped the roof of my mouth as he dragged a finger down the center of me, and I gasped, my back arching. “Feyre,” he said against my lips, my name like a prayer more devout than any Ianthe had offered up to the Cauldron on that dark solstice morning.
His tongue swept my mouth again, in time to the finger that he slipped inside of me. My hips undulated, demanding more, craving the fullness of him, and his growl reverberated in my chest as he added another finger.
I moved on him. Lightning lashed through my veins, and my focus narrowed to his fingers, his mouth, his body on mine. His palm pushed against the bundle of nerves at the apex of my thighs, and I groaned his name as I shattered”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing