April Beth

“Who do you wish to be? he asked the barely woven tapestry within himself. Let the threads and knots take form, crafting the picture within his mind. Starting small.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“Butterflies understand the desert well. That’s why they move this way and that. They’re always Holding Conversation with the land. They talk as much as they listen. It’s in the desert’s language that you call the butterflies.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

“She had never known that hope could hurt so badly, like blood rushing back to a deadened limb.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“There were times when I felt there were a thousand doors in my head, and I needed to open all of them to find the one important door. The one important key that would open it. And whatever was behind that door would somehow illuminate what I didn't understand about my life. In the meantime, I had to open those thousand doors and see what wonderful and dreadful beasts existed there, waiting for me.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Hour Before Dark