Umazes

“The reminder that other lives had tragedies without reference to his own was both salutary and painful.”
― Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor

“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect.”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows