Liz

“No, better. Stories. There’s freedom in stories, you know. We read them and we become something else. We imagine different lives, and while we turn the pages, we get to live them. To escape the lot we’ve been given.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“If you do not admit kindness from others, you cannot be surprised when they fail to offer any.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“Sometimes I had beautiful words living inside of me and I just couldn’t push those words out so that other people could see they were there.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“And she understood implicitly what it felt like to be more at home with books than with people, to prefer the adventures and travels within their pages to those in real life.”
― Freya Sampson, The Last Chance Library