Kelsey

“You have to be kidding,' Turner exclaimed. 'He's a loaded weapon.'
'He's barely a squirt gun.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Traditionally, we are told the moral is "There is no reward for serving the wicked." But we might as well understand the story to posit this question: "Isn't it a merry thing to cheat death?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“The awful truth was that if she could have stopped loving her mother, she would have.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“That was the truth of magic—blood and guts and semen and spit, organs kept in jars, maps for hunting humans, the skulls of unborn infants. The problem wasn’t books and fairy tales, just that they told half the story, offering up the illusion of a world where only the villains paid in blood, the ogre stepmothers, the wicked stepsisters, where magic was just and without sacrifice.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent