Kellie

“Who taught you to go around falling on rats ans squishing on hats? Terrible, terrible. Must always be mindful of your manners.”
― Lauren Oliver, The Spindlers

“It was strange how once you saw a rat wearing clothes, it became slightly disgusting to imagine the animal naked.”
― Lauren Oliver, The Spindlers

“The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories.”
― Lauren Oliver, The Spindlers