Alisha

“Ruby sat quietly, and finally sipped her tea. “I hadn’t considered that Charlie might be upset, too. Does that make me a bad friend?”
“Not at all,” Hugo assured her, putting down his own tea. “It means you just considered your own feelings first. If you need to help yourself before helping someone else, that’s okay.”
― Alisha Dempsey, Stargazer

“...what Ludivigne hadn’t understood is that whilst, yes, she could overpower every single person in Antwerp, she hadn’t anticipated them banding together all at once to stop her. Whilst one voice in the night won’t be heard, many chorused together sounds like thunder, and right now, there was a storm brewing.”
― Alisha Dempsey, Stargazer