Ferus

“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“You'll jigsaw [the broken pieces of yourself] together however you can, caulk in the odd bits with willpower wherever they don't quite fit, ignore the occasional sounds of grinding and cracking. As long as nothing important breaks, right? You'll get by. You have to.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“And what do they even call this? It's not a threesome, or a love triangle. It's a two-and-a-half-some, an affection dihedron.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season