Amy Tottle

“Stories wanted to be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“Wild birds die in cages.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale