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Chasing Serenity (River Rain, #2) QUOTES

Chasing Serenity (River Rain, #2) QUOTES

1 " He heard her take a sharp breath into her nostrils and then she said in a rush, “I’m the oldest. I’m expected…certain things are expected of me. It’s natural, I’m sure, but it sometimes isn’t the greatest that no one thinks to take care of me.” Pause then, “You took care of me. "

― Kristen Ashley , Chasing Serenity (River Rain, #2)

2 " Somehow, this world is careening toward being a place where there are no consequences. You throw some comment out on social media to some person you don’t know and will never meet, shady or critical or downright cruel, and you just go on with your life. Not realizing there are real people out there who suffer because you couldn’t just scroll on by, you had to lay out the nasty. There are absolutely no consequences to millions of people every day spreading a layer of negativity, or even hyper-negativity over something a vast majority of us use. That festers and breeds and it’s filtering into real life. Where we think people in our spheres don’t have feelings. That the world revolves around us and our opinions. But it does not. "

― Kristen Ashley , Chasing Serenity (River Rain, #2)

3 " There are absolutely no consequences to millions of people every day spreading a layer of negativity, or even hyper-negativity over something a vast majority of us use. That festers and breeds and it’s filtering into real life. Where we think people in our spheres don’t have feelings. That the world revolves around us and our opinions. But it does not. "

― Kristen Ashley , Chasing Serenity (River Rain, #2)

4 " But it comes down to the fact we are not normal people. I hear celebrities saying that and I think, ‘Where’s your mortgage? Do you struggle to pay for childcare so you can go to work? Do you hesitate to see a doctor because you can’t afford the co-pay on your insurance? Or you have no insurance at all?’ Of course, Mom and Dad eat and breathe and sleep, but their lives, and by extension our lives, are not normal. "

― Kristen Ashley , Chasing Serenity (River Rain, #2)

5 " I’m expected…certain things are expected of me. It’s natural, I’m sure, but it sometimes isn’t the greatest that no one thinks to take care of me.” Pause then, “You took care of me. "

― Kristen Ashley , Chasing Serenity (River Rain, #2)

6 " There is a man out there who will worship you. Not because he’s intent to make you feel special. Because he understands to his bones that you already are. "

― Kristen Ashley , Chasing Serenity (River Rain, #2)

7 " He had known love and some of it was harmful, some of it he’d used to cause harm, some of it he’d thrown away before he realized how precious it was, some of it he’d thrown away even knowing that. This was something else. The realization of his love for this small being. "

― Kristen Ashley , Chasing Serenity (River Rain, #2)

8 " Never put up with anything from anyone that makes you uncomfortable, makes you feel wrong, makes you question the woman you are, or makes you go against who that woman is in her soul. Especially if any of that is coming from a man. "

― Kristen Ashley , Chasing Serenity (River Rain, #2)

9 " Live your life being you, and one day, you’ll run into him, the man you’re supposed to find. And you know yourself so well, you’ll recognize him instantly. He won’t slip through your fingers, "

― Kristen Ashley , Chasing Serenity (River Rain, #2)