Katie MacDonald

“Because the world had told her that if she sacrificed as much as she could - if she kept herself small and quiet, swallowed back her questions and angers and fears - she would eventually be light enough for someone else to carry.”
― Claudia Lux, Sign Here

“What he was saying-the things he told me-was his way of showing me he trusted me. It was also his way of giving me the match. If I wanted to, I could burn him down. But if we were going to do this, I would have to be his safe harbor and he would have to be mine.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“The presumption that the dead are happy just to listen was a selfish, desperate side effect of loss.”
― Claudia Lux, Sign Here

“I have thought about you every single day since that day. Maybe every hour. I've counted days to go back to the island, and I pushed us into storms I shouldn't have because I didn't want to not be there when you woke up. I didn't want you to wait for me. Ever. Or to think I wasn't coming back." He paused. "I struck the deal with Saint because I wanted the ship, but I kept it because of you. When you got off the Marigold in Ceros and I didn't know if I would ever see you again, I thought . . . I felt like I couldn't breathe.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable