Rachel

“I think of Cardan tied to a chair to cheer myself.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Elian is so much like the waters he plunders. Still and peaceful on the surface, but beneath there is madness.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“I could only get on at all by taking “nature” into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push in a direction unusual, of course, and unpleasant, but demanding after all, for a fair front, only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction

“She was blond, slim, and pouty, which would have given me three good reasons to dislike her even if she’d been a sweet lass who spent her free time tending sick hedgehogs.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Whispering Skull