Briahna

“She rubbed a hand over her heart. It was like reading a book, she decided. You read the book and the words became scenes, the characters became people and they lived inside you. She had dreamed of Sol, she had read his stories, and it had opened up a space inside her, where he could exist.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“He hunched his shoulders, tucked his head and whispered, sadly, I understand. I am the Solitary Raven, doomed to be alone and lonely, spurned by all. —I can’t have you shouting in my ear like that. I can’t think straight. I will go to my field and contemplate my own wretchedness. In the rain.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“But by November his passion had eased. “The desire to marry lasted until breakfast,” he wrote on the 19th, “and then went away…”12”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Romanovs: 1613-1918

“Kip wasn’t sure how to answer a question that enormous. “It’s… I mean”
― Rachel Reid, Game Changer