Winter

“Sometimes I feel like I’ve been building you a House out of my own bones. And still, you look at me with so much contempt and mistrust. You complain because there are gaps in the roof of my ribs, and you ask me to give more of myself to fill them. You want my hips to be the bowl you drink from. My shoulders, your bed. My arms, your walls. My legs, the very ground you stand on. You want your fill of my blood whenever you crave it. What more do you want from me?”
― Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

“No. Not really. A weapon didn't come to an agreement with the hand that held it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Blue was so tired of compromises. She was tired of sensible.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“Blue's heart burst with how big it was, this moment, and no other.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves