Mary

“You like this place?"

"Of course I do. It has books in it.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“I think that when one has an unkind heart, it diminishes their physical beauty.”
― Catherine Coles, Murder at the Manor

“That was the truth of magic—blood and guts and semen and spit, organs kept in jars, maps for hunting humans, the skulls of unborn infants. The problem wasn’t books and fairy tales, just that they told half the story, offering up the illusion of a world where only the villains paid in blood, the ogre stepmothers, the wicked stepsisters, where magic was just and without sacrifice.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender