Anne Secher

“You know," he mutters, "I have never really understood why my sister chose you, above all others. 'What do you want to go marrying him for?' I said to her. 'What use is he?' Bartholomew takes his crook and places it squarely between his feet. "You know what she said to me?"
The husband, standing straight as a reed now, arms folded, lips pressed together, shakes his head. "What did she say?"
"That you had more hidden away inside you than anyone else she'd ever met.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

“It is what originally caught my interest, but i lose interest in everything sooner or later. Everything save you. Because in you, i found my match. In you, i found my equal.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“A mage's power either grows or weakens. Power never reamins still and neither does the strength of a nation. Only those who can find new sources of strength may earn a mage's name. Those who cannot, have no value to our people.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Spellslinger

“Soldiers don't cry on a battlefield. They move forward. They fight.”
― Gosia Nealon, The Last Sketch