Gema

“It’s said that everything you eat, even the air you breathe, becomes part of you. The axi that make up the matter you take in come to make up you instead. I, however, find that the moments we take into our souls as memories are far more important than what we eat. We need those moments as surely as the air, and they linger. Potent. Yes, a person is more than their experiences, stacked up like stones. But our best moments are the foundations we use to reach for the sky.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Art is about feelings and emotion. It's about letting them escape, so they can be shared. It's about capturing a truth about yourself. Like you're ripping a hole in your chest and exposing your soul.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Everybody knows how to die. You just quit living and then you're slap-taught.”
― Brooke Bolander, The Only Harmless Great Thing

“But chains can be snapped, O best beloved mooncalf. Sticks can be knocked out of a Man's clever hands”
― Brooke Bolander, The Only Harmless Great Thing