Isabelle

“When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.”
― Jude Watson, In Too Deep

“I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, Into the Gauntlet

“Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Chinese- 'Jonah Wizard Makes Your Ancestors Fat'.”
― Gordon Korman, The Emperor's Code