Araceli

“This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and shadow. This was the truth behind the handsome face and the miraculous powers, the truth that was the dead and empty space between the stars, a wasteland peopled by frightened monsters.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches