Melanie Williams

“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

“Impossible things do happen. But only if we make them.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“You're not weak because you can't read. You're weak because you're afraid of people seeing your weakness.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“It became a declaration. 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.”
― Leigh Bardugo