Samantha

“All the mystery and wisdom of the Masters, when it’s out in the daylight, doesn’t amount to so much, you know. Tricks of the trade—wonderful illusions. But people don’t want to know that. They want the illusions, the mysteries. Who can blame them? There’s so little in life that’s beautiful or worthy.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition

“The notion that fantasy is only for the immature rises from an obstinate misunderstanding of both maturity and the imagination.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea

“Didn’t someone say love is a shared delusion?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“My anger’s a bad guest, my mother likes to say: comes without warning and stays a long time.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education