Morgan Schmidt

“Finn's eyes met his and it occurred to her that magic could be spoken and drawn in chalk or invoked when controlling an element but there was also another kind of magic. The type of magic born when trust bloomed between two people, trust that could survive the worst of your faults and secrets, your greatest fears.”
― Maya Motayne, Oculta

“Do not wait for people to be flawless before you allow yourself to adore them. Adore them anyway. (p. 169)”
― Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

“I love the heart that is within you," Cartier said, smiling as his tears fell. "I love the spirit you are forged from Brienna MacQuinn. If you were a storm, I would lie down and rest in your rain. If you were a river, I would drink from your currents. If you were a poem, I would never cease to read you. I adore the girl you once were, and I love the woman you have become. Marry me. Lead my lands and my people, and take me as yours.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance

“But Christopher didn't have the words, then, to explain what, nonetheless, he knew: that sometimes, if you are among the very lucky, a spark of understanding cuts like lightning across the space between two people. 'It's a defibrillator for the heart. And it toughens you. It nourishes you. And the word we've chosen for it (which is an insufficient word for being so abruptly upended in a new and finer place) is friendship!”
― Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures