Ruby

“If she was half an animal, let the animal half speak for her, then. The human part was tied up with human things like self-loathing, but that did not matter. There were no words in reindeer speech for I hate myself. It was not a concept that could be thought, and so she did not bother to think it. She”
― T. Kingfisher, The Raven and the Reindeer

“I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Raven and the Reindeer

“It is hard to see a story when you are standing in the middle of it.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Raven and the Reindeer

“All learned people learn Latin. It's bound to come in useful. Fairy tales, on the other hand, are about real life.”
― Monica Furlong, Wise Child