Amanda Marie

“Because a cage is still a cage, no matter how big or glittering the bars are.”
― Betsy Schow, Spelled

“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“While the two of them might never be the closest of friends, they had developed a connection that was important for each of them. When they'd needed someone, they'd found one another.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, The Girl Death Left Behind

“It was easier to talk about nothing than something. Because something was too terrible to discuss. Too dark and terrible to even think about.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, The Girl Death Left Behind