Diane

“Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.”
― Mercedes Lackey, The Black Gryphon

“All I knew was that, like a kaleidoscope coming into focus, I was seeing Mal in a new light—one as beautiful as it was broken. The watchful, wounded patterns of his behavior, the shifting fractals of his words—all his jagged pieces added up to something gorgeous. But it had to hurt, walking through the world that way. Carrying all those sharp edges inside himself.”
― spencer spears

“A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.”
― Edith Pargeter, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury

“kidnapped”
― Spencer Spears, Sea Kissed