Linnea Gear

“I think of him so often I would recognize even his silhouette if he were only a painted shadow on the wall.”
― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

“I’m tired of this honorable Woodsman pretense,” I tell him. “You’re a prince. Act like one.”
“You wouldn’t like it much if I did.”
“Why not?”
“Because I’d gag and bind you for talking to me the way you do.”
― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

“What's the point of having power if you balk at every chance to wield it?”
― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

“Until this moment, Wylan hadn't quite understood how much they meant to him. His father would have sneered at these thugs and thieves, a disgraced soldier, a gambler who couldn't keep out of the red. But they were his first friends, his only friends, and Wylan knew that even if he'd had his pick of a thousand companions, these would have been the people he chose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom