Aanya Mathur

“Ah, Mademoiselle Oddlow - trouble is all around. But heroes are rare.”
― Lena Jones, The Secret Key

“Hang on …’ Liam says. ‘Aren’t there only thirty-two pods? I read about it – thirty-two pods for the thirty-two boroughs of London.’ ‘Yeah, but there’s no number thirteen. So there’s a number thirty-three to make up for the missing pod,’ I say.”
― Lena Jones, The Secret Key

“There were no rules, only consequences.”
― Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War

“can see you are doubting me, Isa, but I believe it. I believe that that boat was not of this earth, or, at least, was not of the human earth. It was given to him by the island, and taken back. All things have a cycle, Isabella, a habit of returning the way they came. Seasons, water, lives, perhaps even trees. You don’t always need a map to find your path back.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars