Kemi

“remember that to use a thing is not to own it. And should you ever take a bride, listen closely to her questions. In them you may hear her true name like the thunder of a lost river, like the sighing of the sea.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“Some magicians say that magic shatters your worldview. But I think magic holds the world together. It’s dark matter; it’s the glue of reality, the putty that fills the holes between everything we know to be true. And it takes magic to reveal how inadequate”—she puts the cup down—“reality”—she makes a fist—“is.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“Perhaps home, like the moon, will follow wherever she goes.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled—not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic