India C

“You make me wish I could stay...You're the only person who's ever done that, apart from Blue.”
― Heather Fawcett, The School Between Winter and Fairyland

“In the end, it was four words that changed the course of our lives and the history of the world. Perhaps it wasn’t really so surprising. They were, after all, the most important words in any language.
‘What are you reading?”
― H.G. Parry, The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

“...it’s always the friends in the end, isn’t it, who remain to pick up the pieces when the men have gone, leaving destruction in their wake? Still, only the romantic partner is taken seriously. Friends and family will not gather, ever, to celebrate my partnership with Naima—there will be no anniversaries or acknowledgments, no congratulatory cards, no celebratory ceremonies. And yet, it is this slow burning love of female friendship that actually keeps the world turning.”
― Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, The Centre

“If what we have is half, then we shall make it the very best half.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte