Skylar

“IT’S HARDER TO CHARM A CHICKEN than you might think. I guess it’s because they have such tiny brains. Nothing against the chicken, of course—it’s not like it asked to be stupid.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Mystwick School of Musicraft

“As the First Rule of Musicraft states: A spell can charm or do great harm. Before you play, clear the way.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Mystwick School of Musicraft

“VR addictions take it to a new level. People are found dead everyday in their beds or couches, with their VR helmets still on, their games still running. They die of starvation, thirst, heart attacks. It's a big problem, and zombies—people with severe addictions—are as common as alcoholics or drug addicts these days. Many of them can't function in the real world anymore. They don't go to school or work or go outside. They couldn't even if they wanted to. The way Hakeem's mom explained it to us—in an effort to scare us from ever letting ourselves go that route, I guess—people with severe VR addictions have flipped the real and virtual worlds in their minds. To them, reality is the simulation, and VR is reality.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Ruby Code

“Why was the love that was supposed to be free the hardest kind to earn?”
― Jessica Khoury, Sparrow Rising