Sarah

“Henrietta once told me that it was hard for a person to imagine a better life than the one he had; to really know and feel that it was possible. It was the reason, she said, so many people worked so hard just to stay where they were. They never reached out for what they really wanted because they believed what they wanted was out of reach. But it wasn’t. Like words written on a mirror: Objects may be closer than they appear.”
― Emma Scott, Forever Right Now

“The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.” I”
― Rachel Hartman, Shadow Scale

“But do not make the mistake, Seraphina, of supposing that suffering ennobles anyone.”
― Rachel Hartman, Shadow Scale

“Worse, she was the kind of person who thought she no longer had anything left to learn in dance, or life in general. The kind of person who began almost every sentence with “I know.”
― Emma Scott, Forever Right Now