Marloes

“My heart knows your song, as yours knows mine. And I will always come back to you.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“It is not all that I wanted. But it is not nothing either.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“I realized,” she said, after a period of silence, “that she had been spoon-fed a story from the day she was born. She had been taught no other way to be. And yet, I saw that despite everything, some part of her was self-made. This part, small as it appeared at first, was forged in the fire of her own strength, and resisted her cage. And I understood... that this part was made of steel. This part was who she truly was.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Blessing and curse are different words for the same thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars