Danielle

“A word of advice for a person who seeks what you do: always remember, the heart is not a weakness.”
― June C.L. Tan, Jade Fire Gold

“Most animals are willing to talk. It's the human who don't listen.”
― Aleksandra Ross, Don't Call the Wolf

“I want him.
Not the way she wanted the others. She didn't want him to use---as a shield between her and the things she was running from. To feel normal. To soothe that lonely ache.
She wanted him. His sharp edges and surprising tenderness and quiet strength. She wanted him spooning homemade soup into her mouth in his cozy, tidy house that smelled like bread. She wanted him discussing poetry in the dark with her grandfather. She wanted that fervent, desperate kiss in the palace hall.
She wanted Hawthorne Fell. The Wood King's henchman. Not exactly boyfriend material, but still. He called to her the way the forest did. Called to something deep and forgotten. Something that longed to come alive again.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Edgewood

“Children are not born with the fear of falling. It is life that conditions them to be afraid.”
― June C.L. Tan, Jade Fire Gold