Lindsay

“If all you’re going to do is talk in riddles, why bother with it at all? Why go to all the trouble of saying things that nobody’s able to understand?” “Because it's necessary to say it. The word determines the event. The word puts limits on the event and shapes it. Without the word, the event is merely a random happening. That’s the whole purpose of what you call prophecy—to separate the significant from the random.”
― David Eddings, Enchanters' End Game

“And she told you something about yourself you really ought to know: that you're beautiful, and worth loving.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress

“She possessed courage of the blood, she said, but I possessed courage of the spirit. She was . . . a singular creature.”
― Megan Morrison, Transformed: The Perils of the Frog Prince

“I am sick of roses, and I am horny for revenge.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth