Stephanie LaBella

“Oh God,” said Carmen. “I always do this. I just dive straight in and speak and get myself into so much trouble.” Oke smiled. “Have you ever thought about not doing that?” “All the time,” she said, looking up at him. The snowflakes were settling on his hair. “But usually it’s exactly five seconds after I just said the thing that got me into trouble.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Bookshop

“Was anyone ever content with the choices they made in youth? Perhaps not, or perhaps it had nothing to do with age. Perhaps we were all fools until life taught us better, showed us what had been before our eyes all along.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“Sometimes our choices are laid out in front of us, waiting for a decision to be made.”
― T.J. Klune, The Bones Beneath My Skin

“You humans would do well to mistrust your own dearest wishes, for these things never work out the way you believe they will. The way you hope they would.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets