Twyla

“The practice was banned after, inevitably, someone lost an eye. Mothers around the world were smug.”
― Seán Cullen, Hamix X and the Hollow Mountain

“Who would end up the villain?”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface - from the prison of vanity and youur own looks - and sets you free to embrace the soul within.”
― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After

“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