Ayla

“I know you’re scared. I am, too. But we’re going to do this, and we’re going to be fine. We always are.”
― Leigh Bargudo

“Here are three separate but similar things: shyness, introversion and social anxiety. You can have one, two or all three of these things simultaneously. A lot of the time people thing they're all the same thing, but that's just not true. Extroverts can be shy, introverts can be bold, and a condition like anxiety can strike whatever kind of social animal you are.”
― Sara Barnard, A Quiet Kind of Thunder

“And yet when I am traveling, I am brave. I do what has to be done. When I am waiting, I only feel small and hollow and scared.”
― Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You

“We fooled ourselves into thinking happiness was a gift we would be given time and time again. It’s so much scarier to admit that our lives are in our own flawed, fallible hands. Our futures are not kept safe for us in de cradle of fate. We have to hack them out of stone, dig them out of mud, and build them one messy, imperfect day at a time.”
― Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You