Mathilde Paulsen

“When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“No. You surpass us all." Beside me she looked colorless and frail. "You are like a living rose among wax flowers. We may last forever, but you bloom brighter and smell sweeter, and draw blood with your thorns.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows