Sovereigns of the Blue Rose Quotes

“The herbalist nodded, continuing to slowly stir the broth. “You are not the first laevvel I’ve known,” he said. “Laevvel?” She’d never heard the word before. “Yes, from the Old Aldin laevvel bran’maur. It means ‘beyond the loom of Braniel and Maurenna’, in fact.” He smiled and rested a hand on her head. “When the body and the true self do not match, it means. Like a girl born to a boy’s body.”
― Joseph D. Carriker Jr., Sovereigns of the Blue Rose: A Blue Rose Anthology