Imke Stevens

“I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

“A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
― Ruth K. Westheimer

“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
― Mona Van Duyn