Books make the best ersatz friendships.

“Briar Rose awakens to grace us with her gentle presence once more.""Shut up," s…”

“You are fifty different kinds of twisted.""Only fifty? Val, you wound me.”

“Come closer, my dears, let me give you a warning,Of the fate that befalls those…”

“I wasn't a complete bastard. If she liked to think she saw good in me, if she w…”