#yabookquote

She now understood that the world wasn’t kind to young women, especially when they behaved in ways men didn’t like, and spoke truths that men weren’t ready to hear.

I had discovered a special way that women could be dangerous. They were trained to pay close attention to people. To take them apart, like Luca did with his clockworks, to see how they ran.

I’m not sure I even properly exist outside of the books.

But there is always more than one way to see the world. Those who claim otherwise would have you dwell forever in the dark.

...its corridors stretched on for miles, lined with books and passageways and hidden rooms that contained all the secrets of the universe.

Dreadful things roam the shadows while the human world sleeps.

—the scent of him: leaves and sun, wind and stars.

—rebel heartbeat and adventurous spirit.