Rachel

“The older I get, the more I realise that nothing is like I thought it would be.”
― Verity Bright, A Witness to Murder

“Stand,” Abraham said. “This is the true test of a man. He who will stand when others grow complacent.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“All I can do now is move forward: ask questions instead of being afraid, take the actions I think are just instead of mindlessly following what others tell me. Be a better person – my own person.”
― Namina Forna, The Merciless Ones

“Traders along our fair shores warn against speaking her name as though she is a djinn that might be summoned as such—though, strangely, they have little compunction when it comes to spreading vicious rumors about her body and her sexuality: these things that men obsess over when they hate what they desire and desire what they cannot possess.”
― Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi