Hemera Carstairs

“When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“Lightning has no mercy. And neither do I.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races