Leah Lefebvre

“Long ago, she’d come to realise that not everybody was like her, that the minds of most were not full of restless curiosity and calculation but rather with bovine meanderings interspersed with lengthy periods of vacancy. She pitied and envied them at the same time. There were moments when she thought it might be a relief to be so benighted, to be free of the frustrations and cares of intellect. But she might as well have wished she were a cat.”
― Chris Wooding, The Ember Blade

“Her heart lifted as sunlight fell on her face. A new dawn, a new start, and new hope. The daily miracle.”
― Chris Wooding, The Ember Blade

“I suppose we never know the scale of our life’s stories. Which parts will survive, and which will die with us,”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“I’d like, now, to get to know people who know me for me—not for who I used to be. Who won’t expect me to step back into a role that I don’t quite fit into anymore.”
― Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party