Joyce

“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

“She clomped her way back to the second palace, down the service paths in the dark, and was almost home when she walked through a hedge. This wasn’t intentional—one moment she was not walking through a hedge, and the next moment she was. It was a hedge ambush.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“She didn't know people could stop loving you. She'd thought friendship was permanent, like matter.”
― Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over

“I'm not sure there is a way to be alive without upsetting people. We're all in this web together, aren't we? Everything we do tangles everybody else together.”
― Emily R. Austin, We Could Be Rats