The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V.E. Schwab

Estele said nothing, because she knew it wasn’t fair. Knew this was the risk of being a woman, of giving yourself to a place, instead of a person. Adeline was going to be a tree, and instead, people have come brandishing an ax. They have given her away.

When everything slips through your fingers, you learn to savor the feel of nice things against your palm.

all. To think, Addie might have saved her soul, and simply asked for these clothes.

the familiar pull of something loved, and lost, and then returned.