Summer Shaffer

“I don’t think there’s a right way to feel,” I say. “And you can’t control it, anyway. Feelings are like weather. They just happen, and then they pass.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“When you shatter the chains of this world and forge the next, remember that art is as vital as food to a kingdom. Without it, a kingdom is nothing, and will be forgotten by time. I have amassed enough money in my miserable life to not need any more—so you will understand me clearly when I say that wherever you set your throne, no matter how long it takes, I will come to you, and I will bring music and dancing.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“The woods around me were teeming with … something. A promise of new life, perhaps, nature’s brutal quickening—or maybe I’m just afraid to tell it like it was, to use that scary word: the woods seemed to be bursting with MAGIC.”
― Camilla Bruce, The Witch in the Well