Nestillia

“In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“I can't help feeling humiliated for Ithal. He stands at the wall and watches us go, and when we reach the turnoff for the school, he's still there with the mangled flower in his hands, far behind us a small, dying star fading out of our constellation.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.”
― Holly Black, Tithe

“My dear imaginary Captain MacKenzie, you are not real and never will be. I, however, am a true and eternal fool.

Here, have a drawing of a snail.”
― Tessa Dare, When a Scot Ties the Knot