Ashley W

“Pink-dressed classmates streamed through the foyer in two perfect lines. As they held hands and giggled, the best of friends, Agatha felt familiar shame rise. Everything in her body told her to shut the door again and hide. But this time instead of thinking of all the friends she didn’t have, Agatha thought about the one she did.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

“It means that while I’m not a good man, not by any stretch of the imagination, I’m not the evil haunting this place. I’m the evil hunting for it.”
― RuNyx, Gothikana

“She looked inquiringly at Meggie. “Do you like Alice in Wonderland?” “Not particularly,” said Meggie, staring at the map. Elinor shook her head at such childish folly and turned back to Dustfinger.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart / Inkspell / Inkdeath

“If I so do my best, may this story be recorded and printed and zipped and zapped into hands and eyes and ears and minds and hearts everywhere, and may it no longer be my story but belong to each reader who drinks it in, to make them bigger or smaller as needed; to fill in those tiny holes and smooth over the rough places; to make them sigh and laugh and dream and wonder; to pass a lonely afternoon or enliven a dull evening; to in every regard do just what a story is supposed to do, which is become whatever each reader needs most at that moment.”
― Shannon Hale, A Wonderlandiful World