

“I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.”
― Daughter of Smoke & Bone
― Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.”
― The Nightingale and the Rose
― The Nightingale and the Rose

“...sprites wearing acorn caps and wielding glaives the size of toothpicks battled above a sea of tiger lilies.”
― How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
― How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
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