Maria

“You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."

“Beautiful and full of monsters?"

“All the best stories are.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“I want the freedom to explore the world, sleep beneath the stars, eat from the land, and take pride of every feat I endure.”
― Shari J. Ryan, The Maid's Secret

“It was easier to not have to explain, anyway. To not have to tell him that though I'd freed him, saved his people and all of Prythian from Amarantha... I'd broken myself apart.
And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I'm not a bad person for wanting. But I feel like I am.”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, Counting Down with You