Pyrrha

“It’s a rough, uneven sound, his tears cut from wild seas and broken skies, all the usual apathy and sardonic quips stripped. This is a moment so raw and skeletal it feels wrong to see.
Evander doesn’t leave.
He drinks it in. He eats it. He wants to watch.”
― C.G. Drews, Hazelthorn

“Oh. Oh, Peri". Iris found a seat on a rock. "So you really like this person?"
"I had never encountered another intelligence that I could experience this kind of rapport with before.”
― Martha Wells, Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy

“It is easier to market a nymph than a viperfish.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“Men like Gyges are like that. They can't afford to let things settle down and get quiet, because then the people might start to notice how bad things have been ever since they took over. So, men like Gyges are forever starting wars; or, better still, nudging and tripping their neighbors into starting wars against them, because nothing brings a nation together behind its strong leader like a threat of invasion.”
― K.J. Parker, Making History