Ashley W

“It’s a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place,”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart / Inkspell / Inkdeath

“I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

“If I so do my best, may this story be recorded and printed and zipped and zapped into hands and eyes and ears and minds and hearts everywhere, and may it no longer be my story but belong to each reader who drinks it in, to make them bigger or smaller as needed; to fill in those tiny holes and smooth over the rough places; to make them sigh and laugh and dream and wonder; to pass a lonely afternoon or enliven a dull evening; to in every regard do just what a story is supposed to do, which is become whatever each reader needs most at that moment.”
― Shannon Hale, A Wonderlandiful World

“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost