Samira

“Stand aside," said the Bear. "I will have the old witch's children."
Pyotr deliberately stepped forward. "I know no witches. These are my children.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“I feel drawn to the word "unmoored" during this time. I look it up a few times a week. I stare at the definition on my computer screen. I love the example sentence Wikipedia uses, which says, Left unmoored, the boat gradually drifts out to sea. It pops into my head when I wake in the mornings, while I walk the streets, wait for the bus, the train, get into cabs, eat lunch alone, and browse the shelves at the library.”
― Chloe Caldwell, Women

“He would recognize this later as the moment his center of gravity shifted: from being one of one—a pillar alone, apart—to being half of something that would fall if either side were cut away.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“Don't look at me like that," said Ruza.
"Like what?"
"Like I'm a beautiful book you're about to open and plunder with your greedy mad eyes.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer