Brittany

“Our lives aren’t ours, darling,” she murmured. “We are only the caretakers of this magic. We don’t use it to protect ourselves—we use it only to protect the Kupari. They call us queens, but what we really are is servants.”
― Sarah Fine, The Impostor Queen

“Nicholas felt a peculiar sort of envy for his past self, the young man who still existed outside of the barbed knot of time. The one who had not yet been crushed into dust.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Passenger

“How smug I was, telling Theo how hard we tried to do right by the other selves we visit. I’m so full of it. I took more than this Marguerite’s only night with the man she loved; I took away her choices.”
― Claudia Gray, Ten Thousand Skies Above You

“As I lay in the dark, listening to the distant rush of the waterfall, I hoped that part of me would always be nine and a half, and that even when I was an adult and had to face the world with all its grown-up responsibilities, part of me would always know the excitement of the fascinating things I'd seen at the beck. I couldn't imagine anything worse than a life without such wonders. How dull and sad life would be if it was all work and chores and war.”
― Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret