Alyssa

“Panic,' said T.J. But no one raised a hand.

She explained. It came from the Greek god Pan: the god of the woods. He liked to trick people, to confuse and disorient them until they lost their bearings, and their minds.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“Her voice, it seemed, had been continuously decrescendoing since birth, so that by age twelve, she could scarcely be heard.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“I am always last to see the beauty I inhabit.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

“It’s taken all my life to learn protection is the promise you can’t make. It sounds absolute, and you mean it and believe it, but that vow is provisional and makeshift and no god ever lived who could keep it half the time.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse