Celeste Sammaritano

“She is not like me. She knows only the tree of life. She has not seen its twisted roots pawing stones and coffins.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“There's always another secret.' -Kelsier”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“It remained inaccessible to my mind, even though my heart unconsciously became increasingly suffused with it.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“I prefer a story to a prayer.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites