“Because once you're afraid of one thing, you can get scared of a lot of stuff.” — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“Nothing is worse than when someone who’s supposed to love you just leaves.” — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“Kids lose everything unless there's someone to look out for them.” — Ava Dellaira Children Copy Share Image
“You taught them that people love you for what they want to see in you, not for what you are.” — Ava Dellaira Love Copy Share Image
“So maybe when we can say things, when we can write the words, when we can express how it feels, we aren’t… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“The house felt haunted, like only I understood the way all of our shadows, the ones we’d left, had seeped into the… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons that… — Ava Dellaira Language Copy Share Image
“Grownups can be such fakes, I thought. They are always acting like they are trying to help you, and like they want… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“But life isn’t like that. You can’t be sure how it’s going to come out, even if you do everything right. They… — Ava Dellaira Life Copy Share Image
“Maybe when we can tell the stories, however bad they are, we don't belong to them anymore. They become ours.” — Ava Dellaira Stories Copy Share Image
“I think Hannah must be afraid like I get afraid, the way I did when I heard the river, the way I… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meaning of… — Ava Dellaira Beauty Copy Share Image
“I still don't know how to make sense of the world. But maybe it's okay that it's bigger than what we can… — Ava Dellaira Beauty Copy Share Image
“I think it’s like when you lose something so close to you, it’s like losing yourself. That’s why at the end, it’s… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“It's a testament to how much we loved you that we are still looking seventy-five years after your death. But sometimes I… — Ava Dellaira Death Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t fair what happened to you, either. Or what happened to her. A lot of things aren’t. I guess we can… — Ava Dellaira Angry Copy Share Image
“I know that it can be hard to believe that someone loves you if you are afraid of being yourself, or if… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“Nirvana means freedom. Freedom from suffering. I guess some people would say that death is just that. So, congratulations on being free,… — Ava Dellaira Death Copy Share Image
“You think you know someone, but that person always changes, and you keep changing, too. I understood it suddenly, how that’s what… — Ava Dellaira Change Copy Share Image
“Do you think that everyone gets to be a star like that? Do you think that everyone gets to be seen? Gets… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“You can be noble and brave and beautiful and still find yourself falling.” — Ava Dellaira Brave Copy Share Image
“It’s dark out. You’re out there. Somewhere, somewhere. I’d like to let you in.” — Ava Dellaira Dark Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” — Ava Dellaira Experiences Copy Share Image
“But to me, they were beautiful, like their own constellation.” — Ava Dellaira Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your music sounds like there's too much inside of you. Maybe even you couldn't get it all out. Maybe that's why… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“I think a lot of people want to be someone, but we are scared that if we try, we won’t be as… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“Because I think that by beauty, you don’t just mean something that’s pretty. You mean something that makes us human.” — Ava Dellaira Beauty Copy Share Image
“And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don’t have to just be a character, going whichever way the… — Ava Dellaira Books Copy Share Image
“You made me feel what summertime really is. Underneath what's bright, you knew the hot dark rasp of it.” — Ava Dellaira Dark Copy Share Image
“I wished I were somewhere with him, instead of there. I was feeling like some kind of strangely shaped balloon whose string… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear… — Ava Dellaira Death Copy Share Image
“I think that by beauty, you don't just mean something that's pretty. You mean something that makes us human.” — Ava Dellaira Beauty Copy Share Image
“Truth is beautiful, no matter what the truth is. Even if it's scary or bad. It is beauty simply because it's true.… — Ava Dellaira Beauty Copy Share Image
“You might want someone else to save you, or might want to save someone so badly. But no one else can save… — Ava Dellaira Beautiful Copy Share Image
