Lalla

“And then his arms were folding around her, and in that small gesture, she understood, felt it down to her bones, that draw, not the electric pulse of power but the thing beneath it, the weight she'd never understood. In a world where everything rocked and swayed and fell away, this was solid ground.

Safe.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“Dammit Bard, you're going to set the cat on fire.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“One day, you’ll tell people the story of the faery king and the human girl. And how he watched from afar as she lived out twenty thousand human days. And if she listened closely during winter, when the wind was cold and the nights were longest, she could hear him whisper that he cherished her so much he was willing to give her the world.”
― Elizabeth May, The Fallen Kingdom

“When the world failed me, I could always lose myself in my work.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens