Victoria Buttaro

“Are you sure you still want to find him?” Maura asked.
Very formally, he said, “Yes, I do.”
“It could kill you,” Maura said.
Then there was the awkward moment that arrives when two thirds of the people in the room know that the other third is supposed to die in fewer than nine months, and the person who is meant to die is not one of the ones in the know.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“That’s the laugh,” he murmured, but she was already setting off down the quay, her feet barely touching the ground.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Doors are very powerful things. Things are different on either side of them.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“No wonder men did not want women to wear bloomers. What could women accomplish if they did not have to continually mind their skirts, keep them from dragging in the mud or getting trampled on the steps of an omnibus? If they had pockets! With pockets, women could conquer the world!”
― Theodora Goss, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter