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Freedom is not what you think it is. It’s cold and hard and bright. That was what it felt like to change everything. To pick up the ashes and let them blow in the wind.
They thought I only had a life that I lived here, but I had found other possibilities every time I read a book.
In every fairy tale the girl who is saved is the one who rescues herself.
I was at the library. That was when my life began.
In a place where books were banned there could be no personal freedom, no hope, and no dreams for the future.
If there be magic, Mia whispered there in the forest, let it be mine.
This was the hour that she decided she would never fall in love. Love tied you down, it made you pay, it demanded all you had to give and repaid you with despair. She would never get close to anyone and would remain invisible, a girl without a heart. She would be hidden even when she was in plain sight.
In books, no one helped a girl who didn’t help herself and every fairy tale ended with the same lessons. Trick your enemy, do what you must, believe in enchantments, save yourself.
“You do not belong to him,” Constance said firmly. “You belong to yourself.”
IT WASN’T EASY TO walk away from the past, even when you locked it up in a box for which there was no key. Memories rattle around late at night, they claw at the latch, escaping when you least expect them to do so.
Some people are who you think they are. Some people hide the wolf inside of them, but you can hear them howl.
“Real life is unbelievable. Souls are snatched away from us, flesh and blood turn to dust, people you love betray you, men go to war over nothing. It’s all preposterous. That’s why we have novels. To make sense of things.”
He knew that all things begin with kindness and that all hope began with trust.
Mia now understood that Joel was well aware that once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again.
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
Sometimes walking away is the bravest thing you can do. When you get there, you’ll know where you are.
