Emily Lloyd-Jones

"Mer, the last living water diviner in the isles of Wales, seeks revenge against the prince who used her powers for his own evil ends"--

The Drowned Woods

A person with a knife was one thing. A person with a knife and a cause could topple kingdoms. 

In the end, it was not bravery that saved her. It was sheer stubbornnes.

And in her contrary heart, that made her want to live.

You know how these things go. We make plans and then they collapse around us.

Loss had a way of eroding one's sense of self.

He had been nothing but polite, but in her experience, the best monsters were the kind that could walk openly in daylight.

Things are only immortal until you kill them

Sometimes it felt as though she were more storm than person, bringing chaos and pain everywhere she went.

Nightmares were nightmares even if one never opened their eyes.

Fane shrugged. "Things are only immortal until you kill them."