Shayna Macleod

“It was possible to be homesick for a time, and to be lonely for the only other person who could recall it.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Circe, he says, it will be all right.

It is not the saying of an oracle or a prophet. ... He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what is means to be alive.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“horses, in secret, love hats more than any other creature. It is a horse’s tragedy that they can never properly wear one.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home