Paper Trees

“Why all these paintings of you? Because I'm an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Fairy tales give it to us straight. They tell us something profound and essential - that the woods are real, and dark, and full of wolves. That we will, at times, find ourselves hopelessly lost in them. But these tales also tell us that we are all that we need, that we have all we need - guts, smarts, and maybe a pocketful of breadcrumbs - to find our way home.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

“Fascinating, isn't it, how often heroic and foolish turn out to be one and the same.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“To be all right implies an impossible phase. We hope for mostly right on the best of our days.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless