Vasiliki

“[Charlotte Brontë] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making their heroines beautiful as a matter of course. They replied that it was impossible to make a heroine interesting on any other terms. Her answer was, ‘I will prove to you that you are wrong; I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Trust the Oak,” said she; “trust the Oak, and the Elm, and the great Beech. Take care of the Birch, for though she is honest, she is too young not to be changeable. But shun the Ash and the Alder; for the Ash is an ogre,—you will know him by his thick fingers; and the Alder will smother you with her web of hair, if you let her near you at night.”
― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“Fighting monsters is the easy part. Back home is where the really scary stuff is.”
― N.D. Stevenson, Lumberjanes, Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan

“Full moonlight slowly envelopes a depopulated village”
― Yuka Ebihara