Luzie

“I'm going to make some guesses," she said, "you seem clean and well fed and healthy, so you didn't run away a long time ago. Someone loves you. Someone has been taking care of you. And then something bad happened. Something bad enough that you looked at all the love and all that care and decided that they weren't enough to balance out the bad thing.”
― Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found

“I can be beautiful and limited at the same time.”
― Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields

“I don't have the vocabulary for this.”
“Most people don't, until they need it, and then they need the whole thing at once.”
― Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky

“They told you to be quiet and constrained and obedient, didn’t they? That’s virtually the same thing. The doors want wild things. They want feral beasts in the skin of dutiful daughters—and you can’t sit here, with your neatly brushed hair and your tidy uniform and tell me you don’t know what it is to be feral. I know you too well for that.”
― Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go