Jess

“I never expected to love him so much. In the Priory, we are not supposed to cleave too close to our own flesh. We all belong to the Mother, she said. Yet as soon as he was born, he had my heart.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

“ I am Marian the Less - but I am also the Hammer of the North, and I am the Malkin Queen. They live in me, too. I am not the soft creature you hope to mould. Not any more, Glorian said. Threaten my family again, and you will remember, as I give you wings. ”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

“A family can be more than just a mother and a father, a husband and a wife, parent and child. My father views me only as an instrument to carry on the family name. My stepmother stopped acknowledging my existence the day she moved into our home. Love and respect is what makes a family, not blood. It can manifest in different ways and shapes, sometimes from people you least expect.”
― Wesley Chu, The Art of Prophecy

“She had seen those eyes in mirrors for half a century. She had seen his face in a dream of bees.

And a name escaped her before she could stop it.

'Armul.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night