Cora

“I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would not be weak, or helpless again
I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez