Isis Whiley

“For Celia, her whole surround was animate, and each tapioca lump had a dense, nauseating little soul.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“to-day.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi