Lyra

“You're nobody's rainbow.
You're nobody's princess.
You're nobody's doorway but your own,
and the only one who gets to tell you how
your story ends is you.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“What will you tell them?'
'I will tell them nothing.' The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp.
'It is not for them to say what I will do.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“You have always been the worst of my children,’ he said. ‘Be sure to not dishonor me.’
‘I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when
you count your children, leave me out.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“If I could use every skill I learned from the back-alley criminals, I would have.
How dare he speak of her. How dare he speak of lost children when he made a choice to lose his, when I would have taken my own life a thousand times over to save her.
I would've undertaken ask his labors without blinking for even a chance of saving mine, when he did them to forget his.”
― Phoenicia Rogerson, Herc