Briana

“It's difficult seeing parents for who they are rather than who we want them to be.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“She was the girl who’d come afraid to the city that could smell your fear. She’d faced the witch. She’d poisoned the wolf. She’d strolled into the land of death with her head held high and left it a lord. She was an impossible player in a fixed game, the only person not playing to win.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“The Luidaeg chuckled, dark and mirthless and terrifying. It was the laughter of a woman being led to the gallows, already knowing what comes next. "Oh, October. Sometimes I forget how young you are. Don't you understand? We say 'three days' or 'a week' or 'in a fortnight's time' because otherwise, we would never stop.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Brightest Fell

“People do not play this game to win, my dear. They play this game not to lose.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades