Abigail Singrey

“Things have a way of taking on the lives of those around them, so when someone in the house betrays you, it's a betrayal multiplied in perpetuity: your favorite book turns to drivel; coffee in space-related paraphernalia, undrinkable; couches, unsittable. And when the betrayer walks out the front door for the last time, you'll have to dig a tunnel under the house, or exit through the chimney, because fuck that door.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You In Another Life

“The worst of it was that Bambleby had warned me away from the tree - if I descended into a murderous rage, or turned into a tree myself, he would be very smug about it.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“Maryan put a hand over her face. "Oh no. You pretended to be captured by bandits so that I'd come and meet Prince Hugo, didn't you?"

"Isn't he the sweetest thing?" said her mother. "And so fashionable."

"He's got like a million followers," said her father. "I'm not sure what that means, but many of my peers are impressed. And he's in line to inherit all the southern territories."

Maryan glared at them. "Mom, Dad, you need to stop sending suitors after me. They keep getting eaten by servants of the underworld."

Her father spread his hands. "A relationship requires work and sacrifice, Maryan.”
― Alexander Thomas, Princess of Prophecy

“She'd believed herself to be special, an exception, capable of turning a curse to a blessing. Only now could she see that was glory's real power, that seduction. She'd never known such self-loathing.”
― Kimberly Brock, The Fabled Earth