Smrithi

“Everyone gets born into bodies they can't just kick off like slippers, figures they can't transform as though they were shadows.”
― Holly Black, Book of Night

“The problem with monsters is that you need to keep them leashed, or they turn on you.”
― Holly Black, Book of Night

“Sorrow is no one's fault.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“She'd never been all that afraid of getting hurt, or dying. It had always been her own abilities, her capacity for solving a puzzle, for getting a job done at any cost. She was terrified of what she could do if she tried.
Charlie had been walking away from herself her whole life.”
― Holly Black, Book of Night