Deborah O'Carroll

“This is nice,” Dylanna commented.
“Almost like old times,” Kamarie said.
“Almost,” Oraeyn chuckled, “except we’re not outside in that rain. We’re not hungry, wet, cold, or lost, and there are no enemies chasing us. Except for that, it’s exactly like old times!”
Kamarie chuckled. “You left out being terrified out of our minds.”
― Jenelle Leanne Schmidt, Minstrel's Call

“And you call yourself a god!"

Tanamil fetched himself up onto one elbow and said, very earnestly, a very strange thing. "I never called myself that," he said. "Neither I nor any of the Undying ever made that claim. It is a claim men made for us, and that is how we came to be bound.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, The Spellcoats

“Even in the midst of darkness, there is always a shard of light if we will but search for it hard enough and believe in it strongly enough.”
― Jenelle Leanne Schmidt, Minstrel's Call

“Mirabelle loved the forest. It was cool and full of shadows and little shifting pools of sunlight. It was strange and secret, full of unknown things, magic things perhaps. It sheltered flocks of colored birds, and rabbits and squirrels and the big-eyed, delicate-footed deer. It breathed with the scent of flowers and the sound of running water, and at night it held all the stars in its branches.”
― Margaret Greaves, A Net to Catch the Wind