This is a banner for Holly Black's books, Tithe and Ironside (yes, Valiant is in the series too, but Kaye isn't in that one)...I've used the picture of
... I hope she doesn't mind, but she looks alot like Kaye (in my opinion)
These books are fantastic - amongst my favourites.
The quote is from page 225 of Tithe (at least in my book), the first in the series...
This is one of the first things I've made with Gimp, so it's not the best...I even had to move it onto paintbrush because I couldn't work out how to add my own fonts or brushes