Samantha

“One cannot claim to be committed to righting injustice and then abandon that principle when it is not a matter that impacts one personally.”
― Jacquelyn Benson, Tomb of the Sun King

“Finding your favourite character was discovering a soul made of words that spoke to your own”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“She curled her fingers in under the blood-slick straps of his armour.
His cracked leather gloves caught on her hair.
'You don’t have to kill if you don’t like it,' Key promised. 'I’ll kill them for you.'
'Kill who?'
Against her hair, she felt his mouth curve. 'Everyone.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“I have, at last, come to understand my role. It is not to discourage your exuberance or your audacity. How could I want to when those are the very qualities I admire most? If I have lectured or harangued in the past, it is because I am afraid. Every moment of every day I am afraid.

Afraid of losing that which I have come to realize I cannot live without. But I do not want a small and stifled version of you. I want you- in all your intrepid and audacious glory. I want you just as you are, the entirety of your chaos and your wildness. Your are the whirlwind I did not know I needed, but now that you are here, I will not be the one to ask you to be anything different than exactly as you are. More than anyone, I ought to understand that nature cannot be denied. And your nature is tumult.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery