Julia Strawn

“Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“When he was fourteen,, Kaz had put together a crew to rob the bank that had helped Hertzoon prey on him and Jordie. His crew got away with fifty thousand krudge, but he'd broken his leg dropping down from the roof. The bone didn't set right, and he'd limped ever after. So he found himself a Fabrikator and had his cane made. It became a decleration. There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken. The cane became a part of the myth he built. No one knew who he was. No one knew where he came from. He'd become Kaz Brekker, cripple and confidence man, the Bastard of the Barrel.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula