Victoria

“This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Few people want witnesses to their pain, and grief is the worst pain of all.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Hallowed Hunt