Erica

“You’re wrong about my father,” she said. “I know he’s difficult—but he loves me. And I love him.” “No,” said Ruth firmly. “At best, let’s call it a desire to be loved. At worst, it’s a pathological attachment to a narcissistic man: a melting pot of gratitude, fear, expectation, and dutiful obedience that has nothing to do with love in the true sense of the word. You don’t love him. Nor do you know or love yourself.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“Sometimes, she'd said, you can't see the whole story until it's laid out on the page, and the only way to figure out what happens next is to write your way through it, one scene after the next, until it's done.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“Things don’t have to stay as what they started out as.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“The Rebel Queen may have perished at Zandilov, but her daughter was alive and well, and free of Zandilov after ten long years.
The Rebel Princess was finally ready to rise.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer