Nadine K

“You are made of dreams and this world is not for you.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Once, when he a child, Niko had asked his aunt Shae why she believed in the gods. She'd given him a strange but clear-eyed look.
"Because I've felt them watching me."
Niko had been disappointed. He'd expected a more rational explanation from the Weather Man. Now, at last, he understood her answer. With each step he took in the snow, Niko sank beneath the feeling of some terrible attention turning toward him, reaching from the other side of the world like a curse.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy

“Sounds like quite the existential crisis. Perhaps consider having it elsewhere.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Tonight was a borrowed grace, innocent of the future. They sat in miserable and desperate silence, wishing and regretting while the bloody moon traced its ponderous path across the sky.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God