Bianca

“Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself.
"It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling