Alyssa

“Merciful moons," Tress whispered. "That almost makes me fell sorry for her."
"Yes, well, most terrible mass murderers like Crow do tend to be well acquainted with tragedy. It makes you wonder who the true monster is: the killer or the society that created them?"
Tress nodded.
"That was a trick question," Ulaam said. "The true monster is the one in that drawer next to you. I gave it seven different faces."
Tress glanced at the drawer in the small end table beside her seat. It rattled. She pretended not to notice.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“The past is boring anyway. We always pretend the ideals and culture of the past have aged like wine, but in truth, the ideas of the past tend to age more like biscuits. They simply get stale.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“You can’t taste a memory without tainting it with who you have become.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“She felt less like a mere human being, and more like a human who was merely being.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea