Amber

“Slowly, painfully, I let go. It was like prying my own fingers off the edge of the cliff. And that hurt too-particularly the falling part, and not being sure what was at the bottom.

But I did know. Now was what was at the bottom. I was already there.”
― Robin McKinley, Shadows

“There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre

“Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“The sheep, I guess demented with love, didn't object to this at all. Casimir somehow found time to pull up some grass for it, and it lay down and munched its grass and then chewed its cud like hanging out with dogs [...] was something it always did. Maybe it thought other sheep were boring and that it had finally found its spiritual home.”
― Robin McKinley, Shadows