Amanda

“I wanted more time with the books. I wanted to spend the day in a quiet corner, sitting against a window, lost in words and worlds I had never been given access to.”
― Kiersten White, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

“She often wondered how many people felt this way, spellbound by words, wishing to be tucked inside a book and forgotten there. How many people were hoping to find their story inside, desperate to understand. And yet Deya still felt alone in the end, no matter how many books she read, no matter how many tales she told herself.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“They had stripped us of everything we were taught made us women, and then told us we were mad.”
― Kiersten White, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

“Unworthy boys make a lot of noise”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing