" It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)