Lindsay

“Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?”
― Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress

“You can be just friends with people, you know," Orla said. "I think it's crazy how you're in love with all those raven boys."

Orla wasn't wrong, of course. But what she didn't realize about Blue and her boys was that they were all in love with one another. She was no less obsessed with them than they were with her, or one another, analyzing every conversation and gesture, drawing out every joke into a longer and longer running gag, spending each moment either with one another or thinking about when next they would be with one another. Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, that wasn't blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she'd had this kind, she didn't want the other.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“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

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall