Hayley Spellman

“You are flying over the strawberry field, but you know it’s a trap. This time, you keep flying.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“I gritted my teeth and turned to look back at him, ready to inform him he wasn’t the only one who could be useful on occasion, except he was staring at me with an absolutely unmistakable expression, one I’d seen fairly often in my life: men occasionally aim it at my mum. Not the kind of expression you’re thinking of; men don’t lust after Mum in a leering kind of way. It was more like looking at a goddess, accompanied by thinking that maybe you might get the goddess to smile at you if you, I don’t know, proved yourself sufficiently worthy, and I’d never once imagined anyone pointing anything remotely like it at me.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“You go along, thinking you can deal with it, thinking maybe they’re not so bad, and then you —” He cuts himself off. All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of the children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parents can’t give. More food. Now that we’re rich, she’ll send some home with them. But often in the old days, there was nothing to give and the child was past saving, anyway. And here in the Capitol they’re vomiting for the pleasure of filling their bellies again and again. Not from some illness of body or mind, not from spoiled food. It’s what everyone does at a party. Expected. Part of the fun.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I was five, ice cream was my only motivation for wanting power anyway,”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education