Alyssa Pettersson

“Snuggle me, Joey.” “I said no.” “Snuggle me or I’ll scream.”
― Chloe Walsh, Saving 6

“Most people,” Cain says, “are nothing but glimmers in the great darkness of time. But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night—if you dare to let yourself burn.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“Starvation rations, filth, hard labour and constant, casual violence: he had learned to endure all those, to let his body absorb the blows. But now it was his soul that was taking a beating.”
― Jonathan Freedland, The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

“When Joey stepped inside the bookstore, she took a long, deep inhale, and felt a genuine burst of joy. Every bookstore, everywhere, smelled the same. It smelled like home.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Things We Do in the Dark