Ava Brogan

“To be kin to a dragon, you must not only have a soul of water. You must have the blood of the sea, and the sea is not always pure. It is not any one thing. There is darkness in it, and danger, and cruelty. It can raze great cities with its rage. Its depths are unknowable; they do not see the touch of the sun. To be a Miduchi is not to be pure, Tané. It is to be the living sea. That is why I chose you. You have a dragon’s heart.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle...”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

“Think of all the thoughtless pain we inflict. A mosquito on your arm; you don’t even hesitate to smack it dead.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina