Annika

“They pray that their children will be brave and clever and strong, that they will tell the true stories instead of the easy ones. They pray for sons with red eyes and daughters with horns.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“I hold out my ring hand and speak as loudly and clearly as I ever have, letting my magic rise up from the empty pit of my stomach—"Simon says!"
Simon's next words ring out, dense with magic—"Stop it, stop hurting me!"
The mage jerks away from him, then sags in Baz's arms.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“Magic separates us from the world: let nothing separate us from each other.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“We were not made to please princes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic