Soline

“It was much easier to be brave for your friends than for yourself.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

“I’d been trying really hard not to learn their names, but it wasn’t going very well”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate

“I’m not some sort of pallid romantic who insists on being loved for my shining inner being. My inner being is exceptionally cranky and I often don’t want her company myself.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate

“When I say us, what I mean is them. I felt fine. No; I felt like I’d woken up after a long sleep and had a good workout in the fresh air and a really nice stretch and was now contemplating with interest the idea of a hearty lunch. Sitting on edge in a classroom for hours surrounded by fluffy peeping freshmen waiting for one mal to pop out at me: nightmarish. Summoning a river of magma to instantly vaporize twenty-seven carefully designed attacks at once: nothing to it.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate