Caitlin

“There was no room, it turned out, for little girls who wandered off the edge of the map and told the truth about the mad, impossible things they found there.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“But no good comes of giving away pieces of our heart in the midst of a war." Pere Clément waited until she looked up and met his eye. "It's dangerous, Eva."
Eva knew then that he wasn't just talking about the children. She thought of Rémy, whom she'd been seeing less of lately as he became more involved in running errands for the underground. "It's more dangerous not to, I think.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“She had always thought guilt was an emotion, but now she understood that guilt was a sickness, a fever.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

“There was nothing she had in common with her grandfather: it was Martín who inherited all his virtues and his vices. Casiopea liked to believe herself a copy of her father or closer to her mother, even though she did not feel she possessed the woman’s kindness. Like many young people, ultimately she saw herself as a completely new creature, a creation that had sprung from no ancient soils.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow