Emalia

“Jovie suddenly had a strange feeling like she was viewing her life frow above, in it and apart from it at the same time. despite all they had just seen and done, in this universe and beyond, she might just remember this the most. This room these people. it didn't matter what was happening anywhere else, or what had happened before, or even what would come next.
'Just this,' she thought, looking at her three friends. 'Just hold on to this.”
― Kevin Emerson, Drifters

“But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.”
― Claire Legrand, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

“You were looking for me?

Victoria wondered if she would be red for the rest of her life. Yes.

Isn't that something. Perfect ice queen Victoria looking for skunkish old me.”
― Claire Legrand, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

“I know it's hard," Jovie said gently. "You've probably spent a long time felling like you don't belong, like you weren't a part of the world around you. But that's the drift talking." She motioned to her friends, to the crowded fort with it's warm light. "And this is how we fight it.”
― Kevin Emerson, Drifters