Zab Ashton

“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
― Eavan Boland

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“Rubbish," Max said. "Anyone can put on clumpy boots and pierce themselves silly. A truly dangerous person would be someone you'd never even look at twice.”
― Ellen Potter, The Kneebone Boy

“But Joringel had no chance to answer. For Jorinda ran at her brother and threw her arms around him and held him so tight he could not breathe.

Little Jorinda and little Joringel held each other for a long, long time. Neither said a word.
At last Joringel withdrew and looked at his sister. "If you won't leave me," he whispered, "I won't leave you”
― Adam Gidwitz, The Grimm Conclusion