Ally

“I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“For the first time in what seems like eons, my body doesn't feel so clenched, so hot. And suddenly, I realize that the dot out there on my horizon line--the same dot everything in my world points to, like in the one-point perspective sketches Mom taught me how to draw--it's not any old spot, you know. It's not some charcoal smudge. It's peace.”
― Holly Schindler, A Blue So Dark

“When the bell rings, and lunch is over, I decide to come back here tomorrow, and the next day. I tell myself it really isn’t that bad.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“A whole world exists outside of that hellhole.”
― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are