Melanie Williams

“Death destroys a man: the idea of it saves him.”
― E.M. Forster, Howard's End

“We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the sum and total of who we are.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“But wasn't that what every girl dreamed? That she'd wake and find herself a princess? Or blessed with magical powers and a grand destiny? Maybe there were people out there who lived those lives... But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren't chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I will no longer wait for my happiness to grow like some budding fruit on the limbs of a tree, but will mold it and shape it with my own hands.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart