Kami Garcia

"I wanted to stay this way forever.Which, it turns out, was exactly five more minutes."

"I am the Lilum. Time. Truth. Destiny. The Endless River. The Wheel of Fate. You do not command me."

"He knew, perhaps better than anyone, that we don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it."

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I’ve been learning how to die."