Ellie

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives- or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“She is tired of keeping up appearances, of pretending this lonely life isn't wearing her from stone to sand”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“And as she did, she told her daughter what it meant to be a wife. Gentle. Loving. Obedient. Words that made María tense. And, as if her mother could feel her stiffening, she leaned close and said, “You will learn, it is better to bend than to break.” María stared into the hearth. “Why should I be the one who bends?”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“one of those grim reminders that your life is small and the world is big, and even when it feels like it’s falling down, it’s only falling down on you. To everyone else, it’s just going on as usual.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil