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“It wasn’t the reaction Rangi was looking for, but Kyoshi swelled with a sudden happiness. She couldn’t help it. Rangi acting so completely, utterly normal tugged on a rope connected directly to her heart. It always would.”
― F.C. Yee, Avatar: The Shadow of Kyoshi

“I’ve heard the stories about you, Kyoshi, and I know the things you’ve seen. What do you care if a single peasant lives or dies?” She crossed the distance between them and thrust a closed fan under his chin, stopping short of his throat. “I care more for his life than I do for yours right now,” she said, examining the growing whites of Zoryu’s eyes. “Let me make myself perfectly clear. You live on top of what I control. Your islands are surrounded by my waves. You fill your very lungs at my discretion. So if I hear any news about ‘Yun’ being executed, you will truly learn what it’s like when the spirits forsake you in the face of the elements.”
― F.C. Yee, Avatar: The Shadow of Kyoshi

“Are you from London?” Ruby asked. “Originally.”

“My home town’s much less glamorous. Can’t we pretend I sprang fully formed from the head of Zeus?”

“Your accent puts you somewhere between Hampstead and Philadelphia.”

“That’s the middle of the ocean!”

“Yes. Maybe you’re Venus, rather than Athena.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, The Psychology of Time Travel

“Say to them, “Evelyn Hugo just wants to go home. It’s time for her to go to her daughter, and her lover, and her best friend, and her mother.” Tell them Evelyn Hugo says good-bye.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo