Emily

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“A small child being dragged to bed peered curiously at me as it passed, then waved. We waved back, not being entirely sure how else to respond to small creatures like that.”
― Kate Griffin

“Where there is life, there will be magic; the one generates the other.”
― Kate Griffin, A Madness of Angels