Cal Katherine Beard

“But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

“As always, in times of trouble, she knew what she wanted to do. “I’m going to read a book,” she said.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“Of course I was afraid. But I had learned to fear other things more: being despised, whittled down one small piece of myself at a time, smirked at and taken advantage of. I put my chin up and said, as cold as I could be in answer, “And what will you give me in return?”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula