Luna

“I turned to find my own mother standing there. “So you told your fathers off?” I went to explain, but she just smiled, pressing her car keys into my palm. “About time really. They are too hidebound, the lot of them.” She nodded to the car. “A sleuth isn’t a group of shifters of the same species. It’s a group of people that care for each other, will stand by the others when the world burns. That’s what I raised you to do. The dangers your sleuth faced are done with for now. Just be there with them, making sure nothing else touches them.”
― Sam Hall, Bearly Hanging On

“Don’t waste your damn life trying to smother a spark what wants to be a blaze.”
― Venessa Vida Kelley, When the Tides Held the Moon

“This is the tale of how a chosen one falls. She does it screaming, clawing for her old life with broken fingernails. She does it slowly, over the course of decades. And in the end, she takes the whole forsaken world with her.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone

“She looked at him like he was a question answered. He looked at her like she was the only one worth asking.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone