Tia Hanson

“You’re not the usual beauty, spending all her bloom in hardly a handful of years. Some girls are like that, all flimsy flash, set to wear out into plainness as they age. But your loveliness is that of a sage. It is well set and will only increase. You’ve a steadiness of countenance worthy of the courts three hundred years ago, the courts he knew well.” She shakes her head.”
― Beth Brower, The Beast of Ten

“You are wise. Take the truth you have been given and do not mingle it with flattery and trinkets.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8

“Father has always claimed I am created from humors that favor clarity and resilience. “You’ve an instinct, Ember, to see clearly. Follow that. Don’t diminish it by fear. The resilience that twins such clear vision is a grace, for it will see you through the knocks and twists of life while your clarity leads you right. Hold to it.”
― Beth Brower, The Beast of Ten

“Along with what Father calls my insight and resilience is a rather bad habit of meeting my fate head-on. Days when Hadspen and Thry had accompanied me into some small patch of mischief, it was always I who confronted Father afterwards, anxious for my consequence to be decided. Better to have knowledge of what lies before me than a false hope of lessening the blow by running away from its swing.”
― Beth Brower, The Beast of Ten