Jordan Compton

“She said no, and learned how much the word was worth.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“And yet, you are unmarried?”
“No,” she says, “I confess, I do not want a master, and I’ve yet to find an equal.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Food is one of the best things about being alive.
Not just food. Good food. There is a chasm between sustenance and satisfaction, and while she spent the better part of three hundred years eating to stave off the pangs of hunger, she has spent the last fifty delighting in the discovery of flavor. So much of life becomes routine, but food is like music, like art, replete with the promise of something new.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“The old gods are everywhere,” she says. “They swim in the river, and grow in the field, and sing in the woods. They are in the sunlight on the wheat, and under the saplings in spring, and in the vines that grow up the side of that stone church. They gather at the edges of the day, at dawn, and at dusk.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue