Jana

“Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“We are women,” she continued, “and nothing short of death stops us from doing precisely what we wish to do. That is what the laws and restrictions binding our lives breed: determination and cunning. The likes of you will not obey me. You will tell me that you intend to be as still as a rock, and yet I know you will dart from shadow to shadow like a fish.”
― June Hur, The Red Palace

“There is a saying among us who work there: Palace secrets must never get out, or else inevitably there will be blood.”
― June Hur, The Red Palace

“Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library