James Perry

“This I will tell you, Star of the Evening,” he said in a cold voice, bowing formally to her, the distant tone of the dromonde in his telling. “That which yields, is not always weak. Choose your victories wisely.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“I cannot help it that Kushiel’s Dart drives me to violent desires; I am an anguissette, and destined to find my greatest pleasure mingled with pain.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

“Let us suppose,” he said, “I wanted to … try thinking a different way. How would I approach it?” “It sometimes feels like I’ve got two minds,” Kaladin said. “Maybe it’s the same for you. I have a brain that wants to destroy me—one that whispers that everything I love is doomed, so I might as well just give up. I can’t merely endure that kind of thinking. I have to be active. I have to go to war.” “Go to war,” Szeth said, “with your own brain.” “Yeah, kind of,” Kaladin said. He sighed, searching for the best words. “You know how, when you’re first starting to learn to fight, you don’t have any instincts? What do you do?” “Train,” Szeth said. “Train over and over and over until the proper response comes the moment you need it.” “It’s like that,” Kaladin said. “When the wrong thoughts come in, you need to be ready. Not only to rebuff them, but to present the right thoughts instead.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth

“The blood is the important thing. Blood contains everything, every atom of who you are: Your mother, your father, a million mothers and fathers before them. It contains your fear, your passion, your weaknesses, your strengths. It contains your future and your past. It is the most powerful essence in the world.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark