Jack Holt

“she admitted to herself that everything she had done, the choices she had made, she hadn’t just made them to survive. She had made them because they were easier.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“There was a comfort in knowing your place in the world, in knowing what you believed, and the Library was stripping that away from her. It was forcing her to ask the sorts of questions that had seen her condemned, and each day it grew harder to swallow them back.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“She had learned a thousand and one things and been a hundred different people. But the truth was, she had spent her life running from, not to. From her past. From her mistakes. From herself.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“she had thought she could make this her life. That she could set fire to her old one and let the smoke wash her clean. At least she was alive. At least she breathed fresh air. But Vera’s proposal was a mirror, reflecting the truth back at her: This was not living. It was barely surviving. But a want was a dangerous thing. It gave people power over you, made you vulnerable.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin