Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)

by Christina Henry

Bess came to Alice and took her hands. “There is more to you than you know. Remember that.”

Alice nodded, feeling chastened. “I need to defend myself.” “Start by holding your head high,” Hatcher said. “You’re only a mouse if you let them make you one.”

There was comfort in ignorance, in thinking the world a certain way and not knowing any different.