Raquel

“I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“If you speak the truth, the monster whispered in his ear, you will be able to face whatever comes.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls