Lilli

“I believe there is a considerable range in the bang of most guns.”
― Gail Carriger, Changeless

“Quentin’s conversations with his parents were so circular and self-defeating, they sounded like experimental theater.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone