Ella ODonnell

“I wish our story could have had another ending.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“but here, with his pulse thudding through his chest and beating an even rhythm onto hers, he was just a boy, just a bloody, beating heart that could be cut out at any moment by a blade sharp enough”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“The girl was dead. If her lifeless body had not confirmed it, then it would have been made clear by the horrible scream of the Fate who held her in his arms. The story curse was familiar with pain, but this was agony, the sort of raw grief that was only seen once in a century. The Fate was every tear that anyone had ever shed for lost love. He was pain given form.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After