Madeline

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood and marrow used to be, pushing every other feeling out as it fills you from your feet to your scalp. It leaves you with nothing.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Solitary

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart