Hannah

“Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.”
― Shannon Hale, Forest Born

“It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat."
"Did she just call you tree rat?”
― Shannon Hale, River Secrets

“I heard a tale once,' said Isi, 'of the gifts of language. Do you know it? How in faraway places, there are people who can speak with birds or horses or rain, and some when they speak to other people have the unnatural power to persuade, their every word a kind of magic? Once in Ingridan I heard Sileph speak and wondered if he had not just walked out of that old tale.' Enna's skin tingled with an icy chill. Isi was trying to tell her something - Sileph had the gift of people-speaking. A dangerous gift, Isi had said once. When one with this gift speaks, it's not easy to resist the power of their persuasion. It's difficult not to adore them.”
― Shannon Hale