Abigail Singrey

“The worst of it was that Bambleby had warned me away from the tree - if I descended into a murderous rage, or turned into a tree myself, he would be very smug about it.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“A startling power like that of a great wind, the rumble of a tsunami, or the tremor of an earthquake emanated from their passing. Pigeons streaming over Columbus, Ohio, in 1855 spooked horses, impelled children to run for home, and caused the pious to drop to their knees in prayer.”
― James H. McCommons, The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America's Birds

“Things have a way of taking on the lives of those around them, so when someone in the house betrays you, it's a betrayal multiplied in perpetuity: your favorite book turns to drivel; coffee in space-related paraphernalia, undrinkable; couches, unsittable. And when the betrayer walks out the front door for the last time, you'll have to dig a tunnel under the house, or exit through the chimney, because fuck that door.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You In Another Life

“I'd traveled the world from top to bottom, literally. I'd hopscotched the continents. I'd met hundreds of thousands of people, I'd crossed paths with a ludicrously large cross-section of the planet's seven billion residents. For thirty-two years I'd watched a conveyor-belt of faces pass by and only a handful ever made me look twice. This woman stopped the conveyer belt.”
― Prince Harry, Spare