Leanne Rommel

“But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Victorious and dead is a poor sort of victory”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Sometimes, the stuff we all hate ends up being the only way to do things.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary