Sarah

“But Phoebe is starting to understand that on some nights, Lila is probably the loneliest girl in the world, just like Phoebe. And maybe they are all lonely. Maybe this is just what it means to be a person. To constantly reckon with being a single being in one body. Maybe everybody sits up at night and creates arguments in their head for why they are the loneliest person in the world.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

“I see Death now as Baldoin, a wild and untamable thing, not a specter to be feared, not a mysterious enemy, but a piece of nature older than stones. Death was never the foe.

Fear is the foe. Hatred is the foe. Ignorance is the foe.”
― Elizabeth DeLozier, Eleanore of Avignon

“But the girl has something the others do not: a questionable amount of soul.
And a questionable amount of soul is a dangerous things. It makes people unpredictable, it can send them out in the darkness to seek things that others would never dare. It can keep the flame burning, long after it was supposed to go out.”
― Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years