Bella Be

“Magic is tangled, so you must be smooth. Magic is wild, so you must be tame. Magic is chaos, so you must be calm. Are you calm, Kell?”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“I am Delilah Bard, she thought as the ropes cut into her skin. I am a thief and a pirate and a traveler. I have set foot in three different worlds, and lived. I have shed the blood of royals and held magic in my hands. And a ship full of men cannot do what I can. I don’t need any of you. I am one of a damned kind. Feeling suitably empowered, she set her back to the ship, and gazed out at the sprawling night ahead.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“What are the odds? he thought, even though he knew that the thing about magic was that it bent the odds. But still.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Magic and magician must between them balance. Magic itself is chaos. The magician must be calm. A fractured self is a poor vessel for power, spilling power without focus or measure from every crack.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows