Gurlean

“Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

“Kelsea saw now that there was something far worse than being ugly: being ugly and thinking you were beautiful.”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

“illusions, so many masks and facades. All the world’s a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain.”
― William Ritter, Jackaby

“Stories moved Kelsea most, stories of things that never were, stories that transported her beyond the changeless world of the cottage.”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling