Kate

“When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look.”
― Jocelynn Drake, Angel's Ink

“On my seventh birthday, my father swore, for the first of many times, that I would die facedown in a cesspool. On that same occasion, my mother, with all the accompanying mystery and elevated language appropriate for a prominent diviner, turned her cards, screamed delicately, and proclaimed that my doom was written in water and blood and ice. As for me, from about that time and for twenty years since, I had spat on my middle finger and slapped the rump of every aingerou I noticed, murmuring the sincerest, devoutest prayer that I might prove my parents' predictions wrong. Not so much that I feared the doom itself - doom is just the hind end of living, after all - but to see the two who birthed me confounded.”
― Carol Berg, Flesh and Spirit

“In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Superstitions add texture to life.”
― Ilona Andrews, Silent Blade