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“Half the shit I thought had happened to me happened in books. Or to Ella, in one of her stories about her early single-mom days, trying to make ends meet.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“She talked like a woman who knew more books than people.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“and every second you don’t look, your mind just makes it worse because in the end, what you don’t see is always scarier than what you do.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts