Liz (Quirky Cat)

“You lost a great deal of blood.” “I didn’t lose it,” I said. “I know exactly where it is.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“Your head. It’s got its own undertow, you know, and if you swim too deep, it can suck you down. You can’t chase the tide. You need to stay on the shore and let it come to you.” She shook her head. “I’m not going to tell you that everything is going to be fine. I wouldn’t do it even if I was still allowed to lie. Some things are too cruel even for a sea witch. But I will tell you that what’s on the other side of that door is never going to be as bad as the undertow in your own mind.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“You say things, and I’m sure they make sense in your head, but they don’t make much sense outside of it.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“We are alike,” he said, “as no one else is, as no one else will ever be.”

The truth of it rang through me. Like calls to like.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm