Dyna Clarisse

“Who says that children belong to their fathers? We carry them, we nourish them inside us, we bring them into the world, we do all the work in raising them. Then these men—these men think they can just take them and kill them?”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“A student like you, who can absorb what he is told but also think beyond it, is capable of anything.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“Respectfully, I just want to know how you feel about your government lying to you.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“It is enough that, even for a moment, I had a son like you. It is enough that Hiroshi, Nagasa, and Izumo will have a brother like you to look up to as they become young men themselves. It is enough,” she told herself, even though she would never hear him laugh with his little brothers again, never watch him bring beauty to another kata, never see that boyish smile, with those dimples, deepen into the smile of a man. For a moment, her hands had been full of pearls. She rocked and repeated, “It is enough.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen