Finn

“It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives.”
― Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

“…Relationships were as much a part of people as water was a part of blood. Without water, blood was just a red dust.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy

“What’s his name?” asked the dust-wife. Marra blinked at her. “Who?” “The dog, child! Dogs have human names. It’s what keeps them from being wolves.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“He could hear her voice in his mind, asking him why he was still waiting for his life to begin. All his years of caution, all those years when she had asked him
seemingly every day what he thought he was getting ready for. Those days when she'd told him that the race had already started, and he needed to join in or be left behind. Livira’s advice would be, and always had been, to grab what was before him with both hands. And now she would be saying that if he really had for so long been saving himself for something better, something extraordinary... how was this not it?”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy