79 Quotes by Ava Dellaira

Maybe when we can tell the stories, however bad they are, we don't belong to them anymore. They become ours. And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to just be a character, going whichever way the story says. It's knowing that you could be the autor instead.

I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter.

You learned right away that applause sounds like love.

Words aren't good enough for a lot of things, but we have to try.

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

You might want someone else to save you, or might want to save someone so badly. But no one else can save you, not really, not from yourself.

Maybe it's true that there are no happy endings. But, right now, Angie is grateful to be at what feels like a beginning.

Sometimes your music sounds like there’s too much inside you. Maybe even you couldn’t get it all out. Maybe that’s why you died. Like you exploded from the inside.

And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to just be a character, going whichever way the story says, it's knowing that you could be the autor instead.