Irene

“In fact, people rarely left Twig’s Travelling Tomes with the book they wanted, but rather thanks to Louella’s magic, with the book they needed.”
― Gryffin Murphy, Twig's Traveling Tomes

“It occurs to me that this lonely, beastly, bleeding boy is the only person who has ever fought for me, ever stood between me and the dark and told me to save myself.”
― Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

“You were curled in the corner of the bed, completely absorbed in that book, as if it didn’t matter that you lived this brutal existence and had only a tiny room to call your own. It didn’t matter that you had to work so hard for everything. When you were reading, you were somewhere else. You were someone else.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“To anyone who grew thorns instead of flowers--You had your reasons.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne