Marcy (๑´ㅂ`๑)

“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds.”
― Tana French, The Secret Place

“That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us”
― N. K. Jemisin

“E così in eterno ogni perla del mare ricopia la prima perla, e ogni rosa ricopia la prima rosa”
― Elsa Morante, L'isola di Arturo