Nicole Spanhake

“What if we go on,” he said, “only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?” Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. “Then it is not the end.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“This girl wasn’t like wildfire—she was wildfire. Deadly and uncontrollable.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“She wondered when she’d bother to stop being one.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“She worked hard because work was all she knew, all she had.”
― Katherine Paterson, Lyddie