So? Mac says.I shrug.Oh, come on! Don't tell me you didn't feel something? That you didn't enjoy it?It was nice, I guess.You guess? Mac laughs and swipes his hair from his brow. Tough crowd.Yeah, well, I guess you are an acquired taste.

~ Ashley Mansour

Ashley Mansour Blood Ink Fire Mac Noelle Noelle Hartley Ya Young Adult

We are inheritors of progress, of a technological rebirth that had only ever been imagined before now. We don’t talk about it, but at some point, it became clear to me: I am the child of a bookless age.

~ Ashley Mansour

Ashley Mansour Blood Ink Fire