Olivene Brown

“I draw a breath, comforting myself with her scent of coconut oil and lily flower.”
― Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

“I wanted to run away and keep running until I was out of this sad, ugly fairy tale. There's only one way to run away from your own story, and that's to sneak into someone else's. I unwedged the leather-bound book from beneath my mattress and breathed in the ink-and-adventure smell of it. I walked through it into another world.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“I read to occupy a mind other than my own”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“There’s freedom in stories, you know. We read them and we become something else. We imagine different lives, and while we turn the pages, we get to live them. To escape the lot we’re given.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea