Luzie

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

“Antsy blinked. Whatever world this girl came from, it was very different from her own. "Oh," she said, after a brief pause to reorient herself. "Well, she's lovely. Was that all you needed? You didn't lose anything else?"

"Just a shoe once, but that was when I was smaller, and it wouldn't fit me now," said the girl brightly. "I'm ready to go home."

Antsy, whose own answer would have been much longer and much more painful, felt a pang of jealousy. This girl could go home. This girl hadn't lost anything worth looking for; nothing larger than a kitten, anyway. This girl didn't know what it was to be lost herself, to feel like the world was set against her, to be hurt. This girl was innocent.

And just like that, Antsy's anger burst. This girl was innocent. This girl could go home. She could be safe and comfortable and cared for and unafraid. That mattered. That was something important, something worth taking care of and protecting.”
― Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found

“Some children find themselves walking in the broken spaces of their own experiences, unable to untangle who they were from who they’ve become, unable to find their way fully home”
― Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go

“No. Only the ones who aren't made right for the worlds where they started out need Doors. All children may want them - who doesn't want a grand adventure? But needing and wanting aren't the same, and the Doors see the difference. Some children's need to escape from places that will only hurt them, or grind them away until they're nothing. And some children need to go somewhere else if they're ever going to grow into the people they were meant to be. The Doors choose carefully.”
― Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found