Miranda Latham-Jackson

“If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures of reason, of order!”
― Sarah Perry

“In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that that’s how Melville did it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Must we make battlegrounds out of our children?”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent