Sindi

“You couldn’t eat jam and be sad. It was fundamentally impossible.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“He is articulate for his age, my son, but he skips words in his sentences as if he’s hoarding them for his future mansplaining.”
― Rachel Eve Moulton, Tantrum

“Her father had once told her he hoped she found someone who made her smile. Just that. No fireworks like in tales and ballads. He didn’t wish her the shiver of romance or the endless ache of desire. “You should marry your best friend,” he told her. All those grand emotions, he said … they’re fun, but eventually they fade. They always fade. What was better, he’d said, was companionship. He’d wanted her to find someone who would be there for her, who’d laugh with her through the years.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Penny was nodding and rocking his whole body forward and backward semi-autistically.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians