Alex McCarron

“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”
― Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love

“In many parts of Greece it is considered as a sort of punishment after death, for some heinous crime committed whilst in existence, that the deceased is not only doomed to vampyrise, but compelled to confine his infernal visitations solely to those beings he loved most while upon earth—those to whom he was bound by ties of kindred and affection.—A supposition alluded to in the "Giaour.”
― John William Polidori, THE VAMPYRE

“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“...all readings are provisional, and that maybe we read heroines for what we need from them at the time.”
― Samantha Ellis, How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much