Kristina

“It is fiction for a reason, you menace. By the gods, what if you carried out every impossible act you read about?” It was a rhetorical question, but she couldn’t resist the urge to slip into the normal ease of their cadence, like no time had passed. “Oh, I suppose that I would need to become very, um—flexible.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“Sometimes family isn’t a thing we are born into but a choice we make. Sometimes”—Evie smiled—“the people who love you most in your life are the ones who choose you.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“A gentleman can hold the door open for you . . . and slap your fine ass when you beg for it.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“we are always expected to plaster a grin on our faces even when we don’t wish to. I used to do it so often, I stopped being able to tell when I was smiling for me or for someone else. So now, I don’t smile unless I’m one hundred percent sure it’s something I want to do, not something someone else wants me to do.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain