“When you love someone,” he said haltingly, “. . . you want to make this world look different for them. To give all the ugly stuff meaning, and amplify the good. That’s what you do. For your readers. For me. You make beautiful things, because you love the world, and maybe the world doesn’t always look how it does in your books, but . . . I think putting them out there, that changes the world a little bit. And the world can’t afford to lose that.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“You are my king now, cariad”
― Legendborn
― Legendborn
“She was a woman who’d done nothing wrong except exist.” “Except exist,” I echoed in a whisper.”
― Medusa
― Medusa
“People were complicated. They weren't math problems; they were collections of feelings and decisions and dumb luck.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“It's the hardest thing in the world to explain yourself, to tell your story clearly.”
― Medusa
― Medusa
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