Lellan

“The trick to being nothing is to want nothing.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“I liked what you said about e-equality.” The word feels silly in her mouth, four syllables of make-believe and rainbows.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“She thought survival was a selfish thing, a circle drawn tight around your heart. She thought the more people you let inside that circle the more ways the world had to hurt you, the more ways you could fail them and be failed in turn. But what if it’s the opposite, and there are more people to catch you when you fall? What if there’s an invisible tipping point somewhere along the way when one becomes three becomes infinite, when there are so many of you inside that circle that you become hydra-headed, invincible?”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“No. The protest was over the price of bread, said Vimes’s inner voice. The riot was what happens when you have panicking people trapped between idiots on horseback and other idiots shouting “yeah, right!” and trying to push forward, and the whole thing in the charge of a fool advised by a maniac with a steel rule.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch