shreyas ★彡

“ 'In our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we were banished, to a cold and lonely house, in the charge of a man who hated us. And we wish them trapped there as we were trapped.'

'You consider that unjust, Serenity?'

'We consider it cruel,' Maia said. 'And we do not think that cruelty is ever just.' ”
― Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor

“You are very decisive in your indecision.”
― Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor

“If you gave me a name, who is to say it is not mine? If I had an ordinary name, I could have an ordinary story. I could swear I first saw you in Merida, standing in the middle of the street.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“I drank my tea and finished my scone and acknowledged that I did not know how to solve any of my problems.”
― Katherine Addison, The Witness for the Dead