Macie

“But - if you're an in-between sort of creature with no family and no money, with nothing but your own two legs and a silver coin - sometimes running away is the only thing you can do.

And anyway, if I hadn't been the kind of girl who ran away, I wouldn't have found the blue Door. And there wouldn't be much of a story to tell.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“You can't erase your past when there are pieces of it scattered inside other people.”
― Rachel Harrison, The Return

“...he has so much he wants to tell the boy, but most important, maybe, is this: life makes monsters of everyone, but it's always possible to come back. Pain and death are real, but so are love, and family, and forgiveness.”
― Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters

“we will always be with u. we internalize traits we observe in others as a way to honor and remeber them. we are all living memorials”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too