Jancis

“A Lady's Guide to Beauty and Etiquette was starting to feel less like her saving grace and more like a nuisance. A grim reminder that because she couldn't master the rules - because they exhausted her so - she would never be good enough, or perfect enough, or deserving enough. It was silly, she thought, for a book to make her feel such loathing for herself. She was better than that, more than that.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“It felt as if I had no choice. As if. . .It felt as if I'd die there.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“If he'd feel better, he'd have laughed at the irony of how quickly their relationship had deteriorated into their own private Hunger Games.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“A girl running away from a woman's life. She leaves behind everything she has ever known, and escapes to the city, disowned, alone, but free.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue