Evie

“How do I pin down a memory like this? How do I know how to shelve it or categorize it? If felt impossible to me then, and it feels impossible to me now.

This is how I remember it:
The sky was so blue it broke my heart and the world smelled of something beginning. We landed in the leaves, which pillowed around us. There were leaves in her bright hair, framing her face. The empty branches held up the sky. I remember how they curled around her head like a crown as she leaned over me, catching my arms and telling me I was her prisoner, and oh, Sonja, what a willing prisoner I was!”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“So what are you going to do with the pies?" Mum asked.
"My bike is getting fixed today it's kind of a payment, a little thank you."
"How very Dr Quinn Medicine Woman of you; sure they don't want to trade for eggs and chickens?" Dad laughed.”
― C.J. Duggan, The Boys of Summer

“To the shore, to the lake, to anyplace where there are waves and ice cream and umbrellas.”
― Hazel Woods, This Is How I'd Love You

“We are the serious ones. The first. The bravest. The ones who will represent America as it should be.”
― Hazel Woods, This Is How I'd Love You