Asheton

“that sometimes, if you are among the very lucky, a spark of understanding cuts like lightning across the space between two people. It’s a defibrillator for the heart. And it toughens you. It nourishes you. And the word we’ve chosen for it (which is an insufficient word for being so abruptly upended in a new and finer place) is friendship. (He would never find it again, that kind of friendship. But once is enough. You need it only once—so that you may know what your human heart is capable of.)”
― Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

“He gripped me tighter around the waist and pulled me to him. “No,” he said into my ear. “No, Lucy. That’s not the way it’s going to be.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase

“(He would never find it again, that kind of friendship. But once is enough. You need it only once—so that you may know what your human heart is capable of.)”
― Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

“But . . . I’m totally unprepared! I have no luggage with me, no nothing!”
“None of us do. We none of us expected this. That is, in general, the nature of adventures. Adventurers tend to smell.”
― Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures