Icarus

“They can take and steal and break all they want, but there is one thing they have no control over. Our emotions. Our feelings. Our thoughts.... Our minds and hearts are our own. That is our power, Nine. Never forget it.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“Why aren’t you happier? I’m just being who you’ve always thought I was. I’m giving you the ending you believed in.” He lingered for a moment, then pulled back. “Goodbye, brother.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“To Ouyang, who had endured his entire life for the purpose of avenging his blood, it was a practice so alien as to be incomprehensible. He didn’t know what he would do if Chaghan killed Esen.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“Sometimes, you can half believe you’ve been hurt so much you’ve basically been vaccinated. Rendered immune. And then someone says something like that to you.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material