Danielle Albert

“I was always lonely, and I never knew it until I met the Beast.”
― Meagan Spooner, Hunted

“The song wanted. It wanted in the way Yeva had always wanted, wanted not so much a thing as everything, something beyond naming, something more than, different, deeper. It was the want that kept her from saying yes to Solmir, though he offered her everything she could have named aloud; it was the want that brought her to the woods each day, the want that filled her dreams of some other life, something beyond what others desired; it was the want that screamed to the sky that she’d give everything, all of herself and all she’d ever be, to live one moment of that other life, the one she could not explain, not even to herself.”
― Meagan Spooner, Hunted

“She was so tired, after all - tired of fairy tales and magic and empty castles, tired of wanting so intensely that she didn't know what she wanted.”
― Meagan Spooner, Hunted

“There's no such thing as living happily ever after — there's only living. We make the choice to do it happily.”
― Meagan Spooner, Hunted