melley hall

“I don't make threats, I'm just telling you what I'm going to do”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Children,” said Marguerite wearily, “if you do not stop bickering, I will turn this escape attempt around, so help me god.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith

“Why was she angry? It didn't make any sense to be angry, except that she'd been afraid and the fear didn't know what to do with itself.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Oh, well, dearie, a woman's a different thing entirely! Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark." Moss's eyes shone with a weird brightness in their red rims and her voice sang like an instrument. "I go back into the dark! Before the moon I was. No one knows, no one knows, no one can say what I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who'll ask the dark its name?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu