✨Emma✨

“I realized, that she had been spoon-fed a story from the day she was born. She had been taught no other way to be. And yet, I saw that despite everything, some part of her was self-made. This part, small as it appeared at first, was forged in the fire of her own strength, and resisted her cage. And I understood...that this part was made of steel. The part who she truly was.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Arteloth, we are courtiers. We have no useful instincts.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“I am not sure which I prefer: To be taken for something I am not, or to fail at being what I am.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“Because time travel is very fucking complicated, Corporal.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting