Kali

“There are a hundred kinds of silence. There’s the thick silence of places long sealed shut, and the muffled silence of ears stoppered up. The empty silence of the dead, and the heavy silence of the dying. There is the hollow silence of a man who has stopped praying, and the airy silence of an empty synagogue, and the held-breath silence of someone hiding from themselves. There is the awkward silence that fills the space between people who don’t know what to say. And the taut silence that falls over those who do, but don’t know where or how to start.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Their grandfather had been a professor at UC Davis and thanks to him they knew the founders’ names of the top Fortune 500 companies before they knew the states and their capitals. Ever since then she referred to major businesses by their founder’s name.”
― Jewel E. Ann, Jack and Jill: The Complete Trilogy

“Why make anything if you don’t believe it could be great?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“he realized that he had made a grave miscalculation when he had ended the friendship with Sadie. His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow