Harper

“The thought bubbled through my mind, unbidden: I don’t want to do this anymore. I want more. Surviving to tomorrow wasn’t good enough. Not anymore.”
― Simone St. James, Murder Road

“It is one story among many. Every bone tells a life. Every person lost was a world.”
― Alexa Hagerty, Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

“Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared eternal life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.”
― Dean Koontz, What the Night Knows

“He felt heavy and light at the same time, and the world seemed sharp and beautiful even in a way that jade senses could not improve. There was an ache in his chest—some of the grief that had been arriving in pieces—but also relief, and love. Love for the life pumping through his heart and veins, love for those dear to him—the ones who were gone and the ones who remained, and love also for his city, for Janloon—a place as fierce and honest, as messy and proud and enduring as its Green Bone warriors.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy