Kat

“Mika looked away. “I’m afraid I’ll never leave a mark on anybody.”
It was quiet for so long that Mika wished she could take the too-reckless, too-honest words back, but then she heard him, rough and uneven and so quiet she almost missed it:
“It’s a little late for that, I’m afraid.”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

“She remembered days of exhaustion when all she’d wanted was a kind word, a teardrop’s worth of empathy.
Choice. She had a choice.
'You don’t have to be like her,' Yumi thought. 'You really don’t.'
Such a novel idea, and so much harder to do than she would ever have assumed. Still, Yumi forced out the words. The ones akin to those she always wished she could have heard.
“It’s all right,” she whispered. “I know you’re trying. That’s what matters.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Alone is how—”
“—is how we survive, yes, you’ve said. I can’t say whether that’s true or not, but one thing I do know is that alone is not how we live.”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

“It’s a leap of faith to love people and let yourself be loved. It’s closing your eyes, stepping off a ledge into nothing, and trusting that you’ll fly rather than fall. I can’t step off the ledge for you. It’s something only you can do.”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches