22 Quotes by K. Ancrum

Fighting for yourself is another way of loving yourself.

He wanted Jack's clawlike fingers back on the nape of his neck. He wanted it to hurt so he could still feel it later. He wanted it so bad he could hardly breathe.

But your best is not good enough sometimes.”... “Sometimes… you have to stop trying and just let someone else try their best. In order to survive.

If you drop the weight you are carrying, it is okay. You can build yourself back up out of the pieces.

Where we are, there is light.” The wind blew hard from the east and the trees rustled their branches. “From where I’m standing… it is warm enough.

I love you and we don’t need the other world to keep that.” He glanced at the small window in the door to see if the guard was watching, then leaned over quickly and pressed their foreheads together.“It’s just true,” he said. “It always has been. In this world and the next. They could take everything away and leave us with nothing, and I would still love you.

Please look at them and know that you too can seize your failure by the neck and look it in the eyes. Know that you can gaze at the you that was and say, "I love you. You can be more than this."Know that you can step forward, even when everything in you is screaming to keep looking back.You are evolving and growing. You deserve to.

My mom once told me that being alone makes you feel weaker every day, even if you're not." he said quietly. "But it's not as bad if you're with other people who are alone, too. We can hold each other up like a card tower.

August’s heart seized. He didn’t … know he could have this.Jack kissed him so carefully that August thought he would fall to pieces. Kissed him with the weight of knowing the price of risk. Then he gazed back at August like his heart was already breaking.