Karen

“They say hunting monsters will turn you into one. That isn’t what’s happening now. Sometimes to kill a dragon, you have to remember that you breath fire too. This isn’t a becoming; its a revealing. I’ve been a monster all along.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

“I guess it’s easy to be confident when you’re helpless, easy to be fearless when you have nothing left to lose”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

“There is no fixing. There is only moving forward in the brokenness.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Look, it's like a handshake," he said finally. "You know when some guy goes in for the shake and you've never met him before, and he puts it out there, and you just know in that moment right before the shake if it's going to be sweaty or not? It's like that."
"So what you're saying is you can't explain it."
"I did explain it."
"No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format."
"I did explain it," Ronan insisted, so ferociously that Chainsaw flapped, certain she was in trouble.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves