Erin Wolak

“If you let the grief in, it might consume you.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“When Rapunzel saw the prince, she fell over him and began to weep, and her tears dropped into his eyes”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

“You mean murder and eat," Alice said.
"No, I mean eat and murder," the rat said. "I'd rather it the other way around, wouldn't you?"
"I'd rather it not all all," Alice said.”
― Christina Henry, Alice