Heather

“My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known. Unfortunately, it seems to be working backward at the moment, and even I can find no way to set it right. It must be that you are meant to find your own way to reach your power in time; but frankly, you should live so long as that will take you. Therefore I grant it that you shall not age from this day forth, but will travel the world round and round, eternally inefficient, until at last you come to yourself and know what you are. Don't thank me. I tremble at your doom.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“My people are in the world again. No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy‌—‌save one, and I thank you for that, too.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“I don't remember Sherlock Holmes ever mentioning what you are supposed to do when you've eliminated everything improbable, and nothing is left.”
― Donnie Eichar, Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

“The Perfect and Kind shrugs. His eyes are on me, not Fetter. He turns slowly to track my ever-freer passage in the thickening night. I circle at a distance outside the pyres, unwilling to be caught in their overlapping light. Afraid to get closer.”
― Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors