Niamh

“Is it really a cage if it’s the size of the world?” “Yes,” said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Glass Town Game

“Insist on your cup of stars. Once they have trapped you into being like everyone else, you will never see your cup of stars again.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“The same joy is in a stone which, thrown aloft, hesitates a little at the height of its flight and then rushes down to the ground. It is the same with a man when in his final convulsion he takes a last deep breath and dies.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin

“All you had were pigs and enthusiasm. It’s not your fault.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nine Goblins