Ling

“Percy Jackson," Hermes said. "you might just teach us a thing or two.”
― Rick Riordan , Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian

“There is no happy ending, theres just. . . happily living. As best you can.”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

“It makes me furious that as men age, they gain gravitas. They become “silver foxes.” Women, however, become invisible. We cannot allow this to happen, my friends. We must all be more Iona. We all deserve, like Iona, to have a Triumphant Second Act.”
― Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

“I wanted to travel the world and sail every sea. I wanted to have adventures, to be a hero, to have my tales told in courtyards and street fairs, where perhaps kids who’d grown up like me, with more imagination than means, might be inspired to dream. Where women who were told there was only one sort of respectful life for them could listen to tales of another who’d broken away—and thrived when she’d done so.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi