CL Tondee

“It was true that she was a creature of the night. But she would decide for herself what that meant. She had two choices before her: to slink away and hide, or to dare to fight.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“All the while, they went about their rotten, ratty business and had no idea she was there.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“If you meet someone face-to-face and they don’t hiss at you and bite you, does that mean you’re friends?”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“She marveled at how this one room contained the thoughts and voices of thousands of writers, people who had lived in different countries and different times, people who had told stories of the heart and of the mind, people who had studied ancient civilizations, the species of plants, and the flow of rivers.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak