Cassie (Reader at heart)

“You learn to live in the dark when you have no choice. Can you blame me for making the darkness mine?”
― Pascale Lacelle, Stranger Skies

“God, the things she’d do to have the uninterrupted confidence of a white man.”
― Rachel Moore, Us in Ruins

“At that tender age, it had never occurred to Ellie that the life she wanted was an impossibility—that no amount of intelligence and determination would ever overcome the handicap of her gender.”
― Jacquelyn Benson, Empire of Shadows

“When you love someone, it's like building a library and filling the shelves. It doesn't matter how many years it's been since Austen wrote Emma or Fitzgerald wrote This Side of Paradise. We can still pull them from the bookcases and dive back into the words, the same as they day they were written. All the years and memories are still right there, cataloged inside us.”
― Rachel Moore, The Library of Shadows