Annie

“When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

“I wanted to cut him open and compare our bones to understand why his gave him grace and mine gave me back pain.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“Is that—?" asked Wylan.

"Scheming face?" said Jesper.

Matthias nodded. "Definitely.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other. And it's true, or true as far as it goes. In reality the world is made of thousands upon thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or for propriety.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys