The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V.E. Schwab

No, Adeline has decided she would rather be a tree, like Estele. If she must grow roots, she would rather be left to flourish wild instead of pruned, would rather stand alone, allowed to grow beneath the open sky. Better that than firewood, cut down just to burn in someone else’s hearth.

Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.

She said no, and learned how much the word was worth.

The rise isn’t worth the fall.

There is a defiance in being a dreamer.

(she “doesn’t like to encourage fallacy in a world rife with empty speech”)

Teaching is an extension of learning, a way to be a perpetual student.

Eighteen is old enough to vote, twenty-one is old enough to drink, but thirty is old enough to make decisions.”