Cal Katherine Beard

“There seemed a strange stillness over everything; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves. The Count’s eyes gleamed, and he said:— “Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“You were challenged beyond the bounds of what could be done, and found a path to make it true.”
― 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

“But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver