Gealach

“I seek words of such surpassing beauty that they might melt the hardest heart of stone.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Kiss

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesn’t matter that she didn’t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons