Maxine Taylor

“Assassins are a monstrous breed. Either they attack when you are at your worst, or they are having a go at you on your birthday. I have never known a more dishonourable profession.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“I drew my cardigan more tightly about me—it was the chill of the air, I told myself, not Rose’s words. “I appreciate your advice, Farris. Genuinely. But I know Wendell.” “Emily.” He pointed up at the beech tree boughs, which waved to and fro, scattering more leaves about us. “Do you know the wind?” And with that gloomy koan, he left me.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“Darkness encircles you, but remember that those who hide in the light can carry just as much evil as those in the shadows.”
― K.A. Knight, Cirque Obscurum

“No one makes themselves; we all make and unmake one another.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World