Alex

“How? How could you know something like that?”

He reached down, picked up a glittering pebble beside his feet and flicked it absently seaward. “I listen,” he said obscurely. “If you listen hard enough, you begin to hear things . . .”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Changeling Sea

“If we don’t pretend we’re laughing, we might have to admit just how broken we are.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead

“He put a hand on the sea-dragon's shoulder; the sea-dragon started.
'You are touching me," he said wistfully. The king's face changed; he drew the sea-dragon into his arms.
"Yes," he said gruffly. "I am holding you. Humans touch. If they are foolish enough or wise enough.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Changeling Sea

“Anywhere there's people, there's a possibility of evil, wouldn't you say?”
― T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones