Jess

“I will render you as you really were, neither cast in pristine stained glass nor holy fire. I will make you into nothing more than a man, tender and brutal in equal measure, and perhaps in doing so I will justify myself to you. To my own haunted conscience.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“When you do the right thing for the wrong reason, no one praises you. When you do the wrong thing for the right reason, everyone does, even though what is right and wrong depends entirely on the story you’re living in. And no one says they need recognition or praise or love, but we all hunger for it. We all want to be special.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“I heard you before I saw you, the clink of mail and crunch of debris underfoot. My grandmother always said creatures like you made no sounds when they descended onto battlefields to sup the fallen. You were supposed to be a night terror made of smoke, not a man of flesh and blood who left footsteps in the dirt.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood