Leslie Ann

“A throne was a kind of weapon by which the world was cut into two halves: the dead and the kneeling.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“this was the human condition: often to be lost, confused, or anxious, but finally to comprehend that, at crucial instances, we will find ourselves lost precisely where we were meant to be; that there is little of use to be learned from the familiar—one may gain comfort from it, but not knowledge—only from what is strange and new; and that everything worth experiencing or embracing is, because unknown, first touched by fear.”
― John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things

“It is the curse of being long-lived: life ceases to hold many surprises, and only by giving oneself up to extremes can the monotony be broken.”
― John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things

“Ladies, get you a man who can handle a portal to hell without freaking out.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places