Caroline

“All learned people learn Latin. It's bound to come in useful. Fairy tales, on the other hand, are about real life.”
― Monica Furlong, Wise Child

“I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm here and I'm listening; and there is still joy in this world.”
― Robin McKinley, Chalice

“I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty –- I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.”
― E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“All this I told Juniper, and she listened in the quiet, dispassionate way she had when you told her something truly terrible. It was as if she was joining things together in her mind, making some act of love and healing where otherwise all was violence and despair.”
― Monica Furlong, Wise Child