Lea

“young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations ... Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Fear and work weren't all bad, as companions went. They were both better than loneliness, and the deeper fears, the worse ones that I knew would come true: that I wouldn't see my mother and father for ten years, that I'd never live again in my own home, never run wild in the woods again, that whatever strange alchemy acted on the Dragon's girls would soon begin to take hold of me, and make me into someone I wouldn't recognize at the end of it.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“There was an abyss. And books contained magical incantations to raise what was hidden there, all the great mysteries.”
― Stephen King, The Institute

“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season