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“I was sick because this life has made me so. Because it drains me and bores me, but I still cling to it as a child to his mother’s hand. After all these years of sorrow, I want to live.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“I know what it is to lower yourself, to keep your eyes downcast, to seek invisibility. It is a danger to become nothing. You hope no one will look, and so one day when you go to find yourself, only dust remains, ground down to nothing from sheer neglect.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“He died that way, alone in his bed, afraid to leave, afraid to stay, afraid to whisper anything but 'tomorrow.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“Could she not even have the promise of love? Why could this belong to the women in ballads, to poets and playwrights, but never to her?”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar