Val

“They should fear me, she thought. They should look in my eyes and know that I'm a devil too.”
― Hope Cook, House of Ash

“She screamed, long and feral, that savage beast rising up in her chest like it would break her in half -tear her meat apart and emerge, blood-soaked and grief-starved, ready to die, ready to burn, ready to do whatever it took as long as she died with her enemies howling beneath her claws.”
― Hope Cook, House of Ash

“The thought that babies would become children, and children would become people, never occurred to them. The concept that perhaps biology was not destiny, and that not all little girls would be pretty princesses, and not all little boys would be brave soldiers, also never occurred to them. Things might have been easier if those ideas had never slithered into their heads, unwanted but undeniably important. Alas, their minds were made up, and left no room for such revolutionary opinions.”
― Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones

“Any decent human being, witch or otherwise, has the capacity to do good in this world. It's merely a case of whetever one chooses to do so.”
― Leslye Walton, The Price Guide to the Occult