Avery

“No matter how terrible, history must be learned from and remembered.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“If the Pythia’s words had ordered her torn, it was her father’s hand
that had seen it done. The years had only deepened the wound of that
betrayal. She had her own child now, and soon another. To know how
fiercely she wanted to protect them, to cling to them, to love them, it made
her burn to think that her father had not held that same feeling for her”
― Claire Heywood, The Shadow of Perseus

“Why does anyone want anyone else? [...] We do not love because people deserve it - nor would I want to be loved because I was the most deserving of some list of candidates. I want to be loved for my worst self as well as my best. I want to be forgiven my flaws.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“I grieve, but I live too. Bitterness is a consuming fire and I have lost enough already.”
― Claire Heywood, The Shadow of Perseus