Haley

“It was strange to Alex that the smell of books was always the same. The ancient documents in the climate-controlled stacks and glass cases of Beinecke. The research rooms at Sterling. The changeable library of Lethe House. They all had the same scent as the fluorescent-lit reading rooms full of cheap paperbacks she’d lived in as a kid.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“There has been a yearning in me that I'm only just beginning to understand, a craving for transcendent experience, for depth, for meaning-making. It's not just that the world needs to change - I need to change, too. I need to soften, to let go of the tight empirical boundaries, to find a greater fluidity in my being.”
― Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

“Fuck," he gasped.
Alex blinked. "I think that's the first time I've heard you
swear."
Chills shook him and he tried to control the tremors that quaked through his body. "I c-c-class p-p-profanity with declarations of love. Best used sparingly and only when wholeheartedly m-m-meant.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Or maybe the monster hadn't wanted to consume Alex. Maybe it had known she might burn going down.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House