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“Hmm. It's a scary shadow, you say?"
"They're all scary. Even if you make a nice one, like a kitten, it'll turn into a man-eating tiger or something. It's like they're trying to be scary."
"That makes sense."
Morrigan was surprised. "Does it?"
"Shadows are shadows, Miss Crow." His eyes reflected the moonlight. "They want to be dark.”
― Jessica Townsend, Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

“And surely, surely, if we are not simply animals that live to fight, there must be a reason for bloodshed.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of Al-Rassan

“Morrigan didn’t like the sound of the Goal-Setting and Achieving Club for Highly Ambitious Youth, which met on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings, and all day Sunday. But she thought she could probably get on board with Introverts Utterly Anonymous, which promised no meetings or gatherings of any sort, ever.”
― Jessica Townsend, Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow

“I used the knife.
I saved a child.
I won a war.
God forgive me.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes