Alis Meece

“Things were always changing, even when they didn’t feel like it. Alice wondered if no one ever felt as old as they were because it happened so slowly, and you were only ever one day slower and creakier, and the world changed so gradually that by the time cars had evolved from boxy to smooth, or green taxis had joined yellow ones, or MetroCards had replaced tokens, you were used to it. Everyone was a lobster in the pot.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“Days could still be slow, of course, but weeks and months and sometimes even years zipped along, like a rope slipping through your hands”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“The cry went down the castle battlements, through the city, along the walls. The queen had come home at last. The queen had come to hold the gate.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“Life—life was pain. Pain, and joy. Joy because of the pain.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash