Addie Steadman

“My signature is sloppy, but that pretty much represents the entirety of my existence.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“And who taught you to read such lofty things as this?” “My father taught me.” “Himself? You fortunate girl.” “It was a start,” answers Addie, “but a woman must take responsibility for her own education, for no man truly will.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Blink and you’re twenty-eight, and everyone else is now a mile down the road, and you’re still trying to find it, and the irony is hardly lost on you that in wanting to live, to learn, to find yourself, you’ve gotten lost.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Blink, and you’re halfway through school, paralyzed by the idea that whatever you choose to do, it means choosing not to do a hundred other things, so you change your major half a dozen times before finally ending up in theology, and for a while it seems like the right path, but that’s really just a reflex to the pride on your parents’ faces, because they assume they’ve got a budding rabbi, but the truth is, you have no desire to practice, you see the holy texts as stories, sweeping epics, and the more you study, the less you believe in any of it.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue