Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.

“Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake o…”

“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The…”

“You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. …”

“...singing ballads whose words had never known paper but lived only on the rasp…”