Savannah Shoop

“There are two kinds of flowers when it comes to women,” Eve said. “The kind that sit safe in a beautiful vase, or the kind that survive in any conditions . . . even in evil. Lili was the latter. Which are you?”
― Kate Quinn, The Alice Network

“Because—and he still did not understand how people like his brothers could not see this—inside the pages of each and every book was a whole other world.”
― Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

“He could disappear inside that world whenever he needed to—whenever he felt the outside world, and other people, pressing in on him—a pressure from social contact and expectations that was surely routine for everyone else, but affected him much more intensely and inexplicably.”
― Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See