Ali Newland

“The planet spins at over a thousand miles an hour all the time. Actually, it's going around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, even if it wasn't sponging. So you can move plenty fast without going anywhere.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Don’t you know? Adam wondered. He, at least, could still smell diesel fuel on his hands. Don’t you know what I am?

But this flock of peacocks was too busy fooling to notice they were being fooled.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“DUMBLEDORE: Harry, there is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond the reach of magic. In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.”
― Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

“Beside her, Adam was once again retreating inside himself, most interested, as always, in the thing that remained unknowable to him: his own mind.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue