T.A.

“Astrid was just as fierce a scholar as I was a swordsman. A girl who wielded books like blades.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“She had thought of herself as a person who wonderful things would happen to because she was uncommon and marked apart. That a clear light burned inside of her that nothing could extinguish and it would always illuminate her way. That then before the war she had held this light between her hands. . . and that no wind would ever put it out”
― Paulette Jiles

“I am the rock against which the surf crashes. Nothing can break me.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“At the end of my suffering there was door”
― Louise Gluck, The Wild Iris: Winner of the Nobel Prize