Ariel LaFollette

“I’d always been a spitfire, and proud of it. An unbreakable spirit in a world that wanted me to be quiet, small, subservient.”
― Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame

“There were not enough pages in all the books Elm had read, in all the libraries he’d wandered, in all the notebooks he’d scrawled, that could measure—denote or describe—just how beautiful she was.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“Dear Iris, I have to say that an eyeball is the furthest image from my mind. Even the fierce flower that inspired your mother to name you wasn’t the first thing I thought of. Rather: iris: transitive verb: to make iridescent. Let us make our names exactly what we want them to be. —C.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“Those small idiosyncrasies littering his body were signs of his life and character, a map of his soul that only those who truly knew him could read.”
― Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame