Megs

“You think the dead we have loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Consider what people will think when they hear this: A woman on a battlefield. A woman fighting in an army. A woman sent to free a city from siege. It is laughable, no? And there are many at court laughing already. At you, at me, at poor le Maçon, despite all the arguments he has made in your favor. They laugh, too, at the Dauphin for even meeting with you. But I will tell you something I have learned in my forty-eight years. Either a woman must be raised high, higher than the heads of men, or she will be crushed beneath their feet. So, we must raise you high. We must raise you to the height of the heavens themselves. We must dress you in the very mantle of God. Do you understand, Joan? Or must I summon le Maçon to explain?”
― Katherine J. Chen, Joan

“He paused to scratch at his periwig again. Kendra couldn’t help but wonder how often he cleaned the thing, or if it was infested with lice or some other bug. She was grateful that she was sitting opposite him.”
― Julie McElwain, Ripples in Time

“She was like a blade wrapped in a bouquet of orchids”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood