David

“After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar.”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora Fyrdraaca

“But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must steal, if you have enough love and courage in your heart. You must snatch freedom from the hands of the tyrant. You must spirit away innocent lives before they are destroyed. You must hide secret and sacred places.”
― Lian Tanner, Museum of Thieves

“There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.”
― Charlie Fletcher, Silvertongue

“Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered”
― Melanie Rawn, Dragon Prince