Callie

“At seventeen, Lenora Hope I wonder if I should be scared. Hung her sister with a rope Because I am. Stabbed her father with a knife Even though there’s no reason to be scared. Took her mother’s happy life”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“Even that was overwhelming for a few long moments: he was the joins of the wooden furniture, he was the skitter of mouse-feet in the gaps between walls, he was mirrors and clocks and dried herbs hung in the rafters and the charms for safety laid around every fireplace.”
― Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light

“All people are addicts, and all addicts desire the same thing: an escape from reality. My job just happens to be my favorite drug.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“In the gaps between small things, Edwin could feel his quiescent magic like a single drop of blood in a bucket of water: more obvious than it deserved to be, given its volume. He could breathe into the knots in the back of his neck. And he could feel out the edges of the aching, yearning space in his life that no amount of quiet and no number of words had yet been able to fill.”
― Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light