Judith Stopforth

“She dared not speak, for to show she knew his language was to forge a link between them, and to betray herself. To betray the fact that just as she was now a witness to his crime, he was a witness to hers.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Within this impossible sea, every star, every constellation, every fold and spiral of the cosmos was reflected. As if there were two firmaments, and their ship was a ghost ship, adrift between worlds. The sea had turned itself to glass, so the heavens might finally look upon themselves.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Ideas are so much wilder than memories, that they long and look for ways of taking root..”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“For the first time I understood something my grandmother told me years before, that it's not our deeds that hurt us, but what they make us believe about ourselves.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart