Linnea Gear

“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

“All my life,” she said, “I have been told ‘go’ and ‘come.’ I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me. Please. Please let me help you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“But the first time I saw you. Rio. I took that down to the gardens. I pressed it into the leaves of a silver maple and recited it to the Waterloo Vase. It didn’t fit in any rooms.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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