"People amaze me, how they need to jump on every tragedy or even potential tragedy like it belongs to them, how they can't leave well enough alone when they get the chance to be involved in something."
-This Raging Light by Estelle Laure

"She constructed a fragile and changeable thing that almost resembled courage.  She hoped it would be enough."
-Fire by Kristin Cashore

"She didn't want to be released into the wild.  She wanted to be held dear.  To belong to a place and a family, irrevocably." 
-Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

"Wishes are false.  Hope is true.  Hope makes its own magic."
-Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

"'So you are a child of love.  It seems right, that you were made by love.'

She had never thought of herself in that way, but after he said it, it struck her as a fine thing, to have been made by love, and she ached for what she had lost, in losing her family."
-Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

"I have spent the best and worst moments of my life looking my sister in the eye."
-Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

"She was smart enough to want more but tired enough to accept the way things were."
-Difficult Women by Roxane Gay