Nicole

“I can bear ugliness,” he said. “I find the one thing I cannot live with is death.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Too-Clever Fox

“Why won’t you leave me alone?” I whispered one night as he hovered behind me while I tried to work at my desk.

Long minutes passed. I didn’t think he would answer. I even had time to hope he might have gone, until I felt his hand on my shoulder.

“Then I’d be alone, too," he said, and he stayed the whole night through, till the lamps burned down to nothing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“So shut the window tight and make sure the latch is fastened. Dark things have a way of slipping in through narrow spaces.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Witch of Duva

“The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Too-Clever Fox