Kyle Sletten

“A power claimed and challenged and thrice carried out is true; the proving makes it so.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

“My eldest sister was right; I would smile blithely if someone tried to saw off my leg. But no one had ever told me that I was allowed to scream.”
― Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature