Penny

“I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“I wish our story could have had another ending.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Sorry to break your fairytale, Little Fox, but ballads don't end happily, and neither do the two of us.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After