Emily

“Everyone had always known, could see that there was something about me that wasn’t worth investing in. The way they could so easily throw me away.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“The greater tragedy of our world is not the victims of cruelty, but that so many of those victims would, given the opportunity, stand in the shoes of their oppressors and wield the same whip with equal enthusiasm.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Broke the World

“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Perhaps her parents would have worried less if all that reading had been reflected in her schoolwork, but she was only an average student.”
― David Nicholls, You Are Here