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“Make me pretty so they’ll be extra disturbed if my face ever unravels. And give me voluptuous curves, because they remind me of a graphed cosine. And also because boobs look fun.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Don't force people to live up to your dreams of who they might be.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Each yoki-hijo trained in an ancient and powerful art. A deliberate, wondrous artistry requiring the full synergy of body and mind. Geological reorganization on the microscale, requiring acute understanding of gravitational equilibrium. In other words, they stacked rocks.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“But in this dark forest, there's a stupid child named humanity, who has built a bonfire and is standing beside it shouting, 'Here I am! Here I am!”
― Cixin Liu, The Dark Forest