Twyla

“Imagine if he looked like me, she snorted. They'd have dumped the baby in the woods.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

“How many times had it been made clear to Fin that he was alone in this world? That no one else could help him, care for him, be there for him? Every night on the edge of sleep, he closed his yes and thought about finding his mother or learning where he came from or coming downstairs and having the Parsnickles pick him up and spin him around and treat him like a normal kid in a normal family.
This despair was nothing new. Every single day, he faced the fear that he would be this way forever and nothing would change, and every single day he beat that fear. He'd bitten down sadness before. He would do it again. Every single day, until he did find his mother, and then he would be a normal kid. He had to be.”
― Carrie Ryan, The Map to Everywhere

“Nothing will ever be enough to satisfy the black hole in our hearts.”
― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After

“Fin threw up his hands in frustration. "Marrill, I don't even have a pardon. Now is not the time to be begging for it.”
― Carrie Ryan, The Map to Everywhere