Jacqueline Mears

“Does this smell like paprika or gunpowder to you?”
― William Ritter, Jackaby

“I can't wear thethe! I want my thtwipey oneth!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“Once people see you cry, it's like they own part of you. It's like you ripped a hole in yourself, and they saw through whatever armor you had on, got a good long view of all the screaming alien goop underneath.”
― Stefan Bachmann, A Drop of Night

“Do you remember,” George went on, “what we found in the tunnels beneath Aickmere’s? Aside from a massive pile of human bones.” “I found Lucy,” Lockwood said.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow