Ravencrantz

“What you've done isn't the only thing that defines who you are. Words are just as powerful as action. They can aspire action in others, can't they?”
― Erica Crouch, Ignite

“There was more than one Cabeswater. Or more than one of whatever it was. How many? He didn't know. How alive was it? He didn't know that, either. Did it THINK, was it an alien, did it die, was it good, was it right? He didn't know. But he knew there was more than one, and this one stretched its fingers out as hard as it could to reach the other. The enormity of the enormity of the world grew and grew inside Adam, and he didn't know if he could hold it. He was just a boy. Was he meant to know this? They had transformed Henrietta already by waking this ley line and strengthening Cabeswater. What would a world look like with more forests woken all over it? Would it tear itself apart with crackling energy and magic, or was this a pendulum swing, a result of hundreds of years of sleep? How many kings slept?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“I was not born to be saved.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“If I could erase it all, I would. But here’s the thing about 'would'. It’s the most useless word in the entire dictionary because it has no place in any point in time. It’s a stand-in for an imaginary space between what might happen and what actually happens.”
― Carly Anne West, The Bargaining