334 Quotes by Ann Aguirre

But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn’t come true unless you worked for them. I’d learned that about the world, if nothing more.

My skill didn’t lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

If you don’t tell me what’s on your mind, I can’t guess.

Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don’t take anything away. A relationship shouldn’t impose limits – and if it does, then it’s wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.

This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It’s about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.

I’d never known it was possible to love as he did – with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.

He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I’d only just met.

But the world moves on, even when you don’t want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.

There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn’t always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.