Rylie

“You don’t have to be good, or useful, for someone to care about you.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“It’ll never get easier. If you had a strict rule, maybe, to always show mercy or always punish, you could use it as a shield to protect your spirit. But that would be distancing yourself from your duty. Determining the fates of others on a case-by-case basis, considering the infinite combinations of circumstance, will wear on you like rain on the mountain. Give it enough time, and you’ll bear the scars.” He spoke out of kindness and sorrow, perhaps not as immutable as he claimed to be. “You will never be perfectly fair, and you will never be truly correct,” Lao Ge said. “This is your burden.” To keep deciding, over and over again.”
― F.C. Yee, Avatar: The Rise of Kyoshi

“If you value your friend when he fights your battles for you - when he is rogue and ruthless- you must value him when he is gentle, too. Otherwise you do not value him at all.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“Why would you ever cut the blooms off the rosebush?
It was one of the only truly useful things she ever taught me: Stress stimulates growth. Sometimes, in order to make something develop in the right direction, you have to hurt it.”
― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife