Kallam

“You care about me so much but you don’t think you can love me? Not in the way you want to love someone? Not in the way you’re waiting to love someone?”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“She is young enough to carry fear with her without letting it into her heart. Without being scared.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“It’s a lie, the first page of a book, because it masquerades as a beginning. A real beginning-the opening of something-when what you’re being offered is an arbitrary line in the sand. This story starts here. Pick a random event. Ignore whatever came before it or catch up later. Pretend the world stops when the book closes, or that a resolution isn’t simply another random moment on a curated timeline. But life isn’t like that, so books are dishonest. Maybe that’s why humans like them.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“A girl Lost in the woods is a different sort of creature than a girl who walks purposefully through the trees even though she does not know her way. This girl in the woods is not lost. She is exploring.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea