Victoria Gilbert

“we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out.”
― Robert R. McCammon, Boy's Life

“If red was the color of magic in balance—of harmony between power and humanity—then black was the color of magic without balance, without order, without restraint.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“People are just walking bags of impulses. Not just teenagers—all of us. We do shitty things because we think we have time to make amends. But sometimes we run out of time.”
― Jo Furniss, All the Little Children

“Passive-aggressiveness had slithered into his bloodstream, infecting him like a disease.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering