Vaishali • [V.L. Book Reviews]

“I shook my head, looking at Beth. “I left him. Again.” A sniff. “I am so, so stupid.” “You’re not,” she insisted, squeezing my leg. “You were just lost, Eliza. And sometimes that can be easier than being found.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“My mom used to always quote Woody Allen. If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. I thought I understood that when I was a little girl. I thought even more so when I was a young woman, a young wife. But now, thinking about the plans I’d made, the way those plans had fallen apart, the path life had led me on that I never would have imagined… I think I finally truly understood it. I must have been God’s favorite joke.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“Chloe knew she was flesh and blood and bone, just like him. But she wasn’t alive like he was. Not even close.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“Thom leaned back, regarding him appreciatively. 'Is there a word in Radian for captain? I've always wanted to know.'
'Kefale. Although such words have long gone out of use. There are no captains in Joro nowadays. No kings.
Thoms lips twitched. 'And yet you are my captain.'
A look of pure, unadulterated love changed Riddle's normally stoic face into the most open and vulnerable of expressions. 'If I was to ever bow before a king,' he murmured, 'it would be only you.'
'May the armies of Crown and Council tremble,' said Thom with a small, somewhat hysterical laugh.”
― Rebecca Crunden, A Time of Prophecy