Vanessa

“Forest where the Maya had lived, and prospered, before the Spaniards arrived. There was so much more wild forest than inhabited land, but the cleared spaces held all the power—drops of poison in otherwise clean water.”
― Marcos Antonio Hernandez, Where They Burn Books, They Also Burn People

“I know what easy gets a girl. The easy way produces cherry pies that taste like cardboard. There is no love in that path.”
― Molly Maple, Vanilla Vengeance

“Raising her gaze and watching the smoke, Alara couldn’t help but think that the people of the city deserved to lose their culture in the same way her ancestors had centuries ago. The library fire wasn’t the punishment they deserved, because no fire would ever be enough—all the books that would burn in the library fire could, and would, be replaced. There was no one to replace the tomes her ancestors wrote, nobody to print another edition; they were lost to time, erased from human history by a priest who’d decided the power for his judgment had been bestowed upon him by God.”
― Marcos Antonio Hernandez, Where They Burn Books, They Also Burn People

“I don’t like being in the same room with this revelation he is having. I feel dirty breathing the same air as him.”
― Molly Maple, Vanilla Vengeance