Dayna

“But as you leave that dark gap in the trees behind, remember that to use a thing is not to own it and should you ever take a bride, listen closely to her questions. In them you may hear her true name like the thunder of a lost river, like the sighing of the sea.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“[referencing that what bothered her about Hansel and Gretel was the weak willed father who let the evil stepmother send the children into the woods not once but twice, and the unease of children reunited happily with their father] : In many ways that unease has guided me through these stories, that note of trouble that I think many of us hear in familiar tales, because we know - even as children - that impossible tasks are an odd way to choose a spouse, that predators come in many guises, that a prince's whims are often cruel. The more I listened to that note of warning, the more inspiration I found.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“What gave her strength then? We cannot know for sure. That contrary thing inside her? The hard stone of rage all lonely girls possess?”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“I know who I am without anyone there to tell me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic