Valancy

“I’ve never been angry to have been born a woman. There have been times I’ve been angry at how the world treats us, but I see being a woman as a challenge I must fight. Like being born under a stormy sky. Some people are lucky enough to be born on a bright summer’s day. Maybe we were born under clouds. No wind. No rain. Just a mountain of clouds we must climb each morning so that we may see the sun.”
― Renee Ahdieh, Flame in the Mist

“The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt. So make it worth the pain.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Because I have not spoken, do not imagine that I have not felt!’ said Miss Morville. ‘I had no right to speak, but I have very often burned to do so!”
― Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman

“If she must grow roots, she would rather be left to flourish wild instead of pruned, would rather stand alone, allowed to grow beneath the open sky. Better that than firewood, cut down just to burn in someone else's hearth.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue