Wareesha

“For even dead, I will not die. I am the shepherd of shadow. The phantom of the fright. The demon in the daydream. The nightmare in the night.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“But poetry is as judicious as violence”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“There once was a girl,” he murmured, “clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a King—a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same: “The girl, the King… and the monster they became.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“You did not come all this way to yield to despair.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns