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“Names are like selkie-skins, often carelessly attended, left in view of those who would misuse them. Utilized incorrectly, though, they can kill a man, can turn a girl to a thing of teeth and dead eyes, an appetite to devour worlds; can make infernos of maidens, phoenixes of bones who have been asleep for so long they've forgotten the shape of rage. Names have so much power.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“A lot of history has been written by the people who fled, rather than those who fought. I was planning on writing a lot of history.”
― I. Ribbon, The Demon of Elderstay: The New Dark Saga

“She did envy Gertrude after all—not her grief, which must be greater than Beatrix could even imagine, but her boisterous presence in the world. Gertrude took up space; Beatrix was always watching from the corners.”
― Kate Heartfield, Armed in Her Fashion

“Bury me, my love, and take a lock of my hair with you. Carry me through the centuries. I think I'd like to share, just a little, in what immortality is like.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“Beauty is just like a book. Some will not bother to look beyond the cover; others will find the entire tome utterly captivating.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Keeper of Enchanted Rooms

“That I want to die here, mired in the cold. That I want to race them to Death's carriage, exceeding their pace but only just, never going so far as to be unable to turn and corset their fingers in mine.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception. Who can say which of them was responsible for this miracle?”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“And you shall know her by the trail of dead”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Are you happy here?" I said at last.
He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I was a long time falling.”
― Kate Heartfield, The Valkyrie

“And yet, she felt so much better the moment she stepped outside. That was the strangest thing of all, because this was the second time today the pattern had repeated itself, and it was not yet noon. Had work become so hardscrabble that simply shifting away from it relieved her gloom? She was still worried, of course, about all those things.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Heir of Uncertain Magic

“Just because magic is rare does not make it unreal,”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Keeper of Enchanted Rooms

“Being useful made her feel good about herself, regardless of all the nonsense and trepidation going on in her life.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Keeper of Enchanted Rooms

“Our souls are like blisters,” he said, a whisper of smile flavoring the words. “The irritant, the hardship, the pain, will make your skin tougher. Stronger.” He delicately touched the sore spot. “But take that away, and you take away the growth.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'
- All my old loves will be returned to me”
― Carolyn Turgeon, Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story

“It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, Mermaid

“there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, Mermaid

“I can't stop thinking about dying the way humans do it. Imagine! If at any moment, you could just stop existing. How different everything would be.." They don't stop existing Lenia said...They have souls that live forever. Even knowing that, they fight so hard to stay alive. I think it's so beautiful. Imagine: being that fragile, that permanent.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, Mermaid

“How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul,shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they all had been once in times past?”
― Carolyn Turgeon, Mermaid

“Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human’s life.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale

“This is how it works, she thought. When the world becomes something new, it seems always to have been that way.”
― Carolyn Turgeon

“I’d spent so long pretending to be Scarlet that maybe the old Ivy had faded away.”
― Sophie Cleverly, The Whispers in the Walls

“There is nothing wrong with being a monster.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“But my kind do not die until we are killed or until we relent to be consumed. I have forever. I will make this right again.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“I read somewhere,” says my plague doctor, “that there is power to your kind’s names, isn’t there? Or was it in your voices? I can’t remember. Not right now. But there was a reason your husband sliced out your tongue, was there not? He was afraid, one way or another, of the voice that beats in your lungs, your hurricane scream. You frightened him. How men fear things that can’t be quieted.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.”
― Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes