Xander Bennett

“a generation:
the black night gave me black eyes
still I use them to seek the light”
― Gu Cheng

“If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“That's so typical. You won't steal a baby, but you're too lazy to conjugate.”
― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

“I didn't even feel my face hitting the pond. Everything was darkness, glorious darkness and the final, perfect absence of pain. It was done, all of it, the running and the fighting, and the pain. After everything that I'd gone through, it was finally over, and this time, the water would carry me home.”
― Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue