Mikaela

“How could she ever teach new arrivals to fly? How could she dare to unfurl their wings with the tenderness they deserved when she would always remember the ones she had broken?”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“Clarion." He said her name like a plea. "Weighed against your life, they are nothing to me. I would make that trade every time.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“When I saw you rise from that star, I think I understood something of what mothers must feel. I know how difficult and confusing it is to be told from the moment you draw your first breath that the world depends on you.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“Winter taught endurance--how to hold onto hope, even in the longest, darkest nights.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight