Lorraine Thomas

“If you want a fate other than what Heaven gave you, you have to want that other fate. You have to struggle for it. Suffer for it.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“Any old horse will run when it's whipped, but only fast enough to avoid the whipping," Hilo said. "Racehorses, though, they run because they look at the horse on their left, they look at the one on their right, and they think, No way am I second to these fuckers.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

“When listening for danger, one must never mistake silence for safety.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

“However tired I am, however hard it is: I know I can keep going, because I’m alive.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun