Enchanted to read YA

“He spends way too much time in his own head, but he seems to like it there, so who are we to tell him otherwise? It's not like the real world is necessarily a better place to be.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, At the End of Everything

“There are days when she mourns the prospect of another year, another decade, another century. There are nights when she cannot sleep, moments when she lies awake and dreams of dying.
But then she wakes, and sees the pink and orange dawn against the clouds, or hears the lament of a lone fiddle, the music and the melody, and remembers there is such beauty in the world.
And she does not want to miss it—any of it.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Tara Westover, Educated