Katlyn

“Her husband's damnable horse snorted, kicking the ground angrily as she approached. She'd never got along with this beast. Unlike her, it enjoyed being underneath him.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

“Secretly, I think the one thing I do want is to get out of here. To go to a big city somewhere, away from all the sympathetic, knowing smiles. Away from everybody knowing everything about everyone else. Where I'm able to figure out who I am and what I'm like, without an entire town of people thinking they already know.”
― Rachael Lippincott, The Lucky List

“I don't want you to work. You're too young. I want you to still have a normal childhood. School was important to Papa and Mama; you remember."
He rolls his eyes. "I'm not a child." There's a testiness in his voice, like I heard when I wouldn't let him have the wine at the wedding.
"Well, I want you to still have a normal life," I amend my statement. "Normal twelve-year-olds go to school."
"Normal twelve-year-olds don't survive Birkenau by jumping into latrines to hide from the commandant every time there was a selection. It's too late for me to be a normal twelve-year-old.”
― Monica Hesse, They Went Left

“Take your time. I brought a novel!”
― Ransom Riggs, The Desolations of Devil's Acre