Lois Young

“I was born down here."
"Really?"
"No, not really. I hatched from a golden egg that a Norwegian forest cat sat on for eighteen moons. That cat still hates me." She pauses for a second before adding, "Yes, really.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“For every tale carved in rock there are more inscribed on autumn leaves or woven into spiderwebs.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“I have plucked snowdrops at Midwinter, died at my own choosing, and wept for a nightingale. Now I am beyond prophecy.”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

“Mensah sent me a private message through the feed: I hope you’re all right. Because you need me. I don’t know where that came from. All right, it came from me, but she was my client, I was a SecUnit. There was no emotional contract between us. There was no rational reason for me to sound like a whiny human baby.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red