Zelia

“Reality, it must sadly be said, has a way of complicating things, even things we might believe could never be that complicated.”
― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream

“There is a choice here, hanging like smoke in the autumn air. She can cry for the friends she doesn't have, mourn for the games she isn't playing, or she can let them go. She can be the kind of girl who doesn't need anyone else to keep her happy, the kind of girl who smiles at adults and keeps her own company. She can be content.”
― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream

“It is an interesting thing, to trust one's feet. The heart may yearn for adventure while the head thinks sensibly of home, but the feet are a mixture of the two, dipping first one way and then the other.”
― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream

“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five