Julia Smith

“He was the thing the world had suffered from most in her four billion years of existence: a stupid man with power.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“I am not "just" a girl - no woman is. And if Heaven has deposited me at this time and place, then I am meant to deal with these problems, no matter their scale or consequence.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

“Nothing is ordinary,' said the tyger. 'Everything is extraordinary. In all of infinity and eternity, that flower exists only in this world; this precise posi- tion in space and time. Everywhere else, there is a different flower, or no flower at all. And the same is true of you. Nothing special? You are miraculous beyond measure, both of you.”
― S.F. Said, Tyger

“A murderer should probably do many things, but he should never, under any circumstances, come home.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay