Katie

“Lady Ivy, tell Bram that hilarious thing you were just telling me," Emmett says. I could kill him.
"Um-" I rack my brain for anything clever I've ever said. "Shrimps' hearts are in their heads," I stammer.
"What?" Bram says at the same time that Emmett says "What?" even louder.
"Uh, shrimps' hearts-"
"No, we heard you," Emmett says.
"Are you . . . fond of shrimp?" Bram asks.
"Not particularly."
"Oh," Bram says while Emmett stands behind him, looking at me wide-eyed and horrified.
"I'll go now." I turn and walk in the opposite direction.
"Wai, no, the other hilarious thing!" Emmett calls, and I run, not toward the center of the maze, but to hide from him.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain

“Yes, he's dead, the fool," sighed Daya Odish. "What a pity, I will miss him.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Bravery is not something you do, it's something you endure [...].”
― Sara Wolf, Heavenbreaker

“It wasn't that she didn't like people. It was that she liked books more. They didn't fuss or judge or mock or reject.They invited you in, fluffed up the pillows on the couch, offered you tea and toast, and shared their hearts with no expectation that you'd do anything more than absorb what they had to give.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop