Jay

“Never appease. No one's ever been respected for appeasing. The only thing you did was let them know there are no consequences to treating you like trash.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“She was going to have to socialize. Reading what humans wanted from each other was so much easier than when those attentions were directed at her.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“They always said Hell was other people, but playing with my niece, it hit me that that wasn't true. Hell was missing other people.”
― Avery Larsen, Marginal Virtue