Kendra Ford

“But what happens when the girl keeps living, when she ages proudly and defiantly, without abandoning imagination, or stories, or that secret wish to find magic wherever it hides? Well, then the poets would call her a witch. It is better to be lost in a beautiful daydream than trapped in a dim reality.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“Her mother loves to remind her of her age, as if it is a reason to stop believing in magic. She rolls her eyes at the thought—yes, she is a grown woman, and is that not magical in itself? To have survived this long, despite the world’s penchant for beautiful dead girls?”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“The mind is far too easy to manipulate, even by our own subconscious. Fact becomes fiction, or at the very least a warped version of the truth. And the past grows distorted and blurred.”
― Emily McIntire, Hooked

“I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I’d like to be known.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale