Braelyn Sanchez

“He was drinking Harriet's favourite, cold tea... not iced tea, but hot tea that had cooled. They liked him so much. They liked the way he talked when he talked and they liked his quiet when he was quiet.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread

“An older man using a girl to feel better about himself - how easily the story becomes a cliché if you look at it without the soft focus of romance”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“His eyes were like a lion's, but Jack could not know this, for he had never seen a lion.”
― Chiara Kilian, The First Tale of the Tinners' Rabbits

“she felt about men the way she felt about pistachio nuts: she did not mind to have them around, but she did not go out of her way to find them, and she did not miss them when they were gone. Poor Vincent, I thought”
― Myla Goldberg, Feast Your Eyes