Bright Star

“You’re a brand-new piece of sheet music,” she said slowly, “for a song which, once played, I’d swear I’d always known.”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War

“Perhaps it's easier: being alone. Building walls. A solitary life with no one to lose. No one to break your heart.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“I have been running through the dark, trying to save all who have need of me. I have done good and I have done evil, but I am neither. I am only myself.”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

“I am the quiet one in my family. The one with her nose always in a book because she prefers worlds where she doesn’t have to interact with other humans. It’s so much easier to read about relationships than to foster them. Less dangerous too.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect