Colton

“You don’t see yourself very clearly, Effy.” Preston shifted in his seat so that they were facing one another. “Challenging me isn’t pestering. I’m not always right. Sometimes I deserve to be challenged. And changing your mind isn’t foolish. It just means you’ve learned something new. Everyone changes their mind sometimes, as they should, or else they’re just, I don’t know, stubborn and ignorant. Moving water is healthy; stagnant water is sickly. Tainted.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Perhaps she had always been a monster, but even the lady monsters of the world couldn't escape the expectations that came of being women.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Hollow of Fear

“Adversity didn't improve everyone - or the world would be filled with men and women of flawless character and sublime insight.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Hollow of Fear

“If a story repeated itself so many times over, building itself up brick by brick, did it eventually become the truth? A house with no doors and no windows, offering no escape.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning