Miley

“His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate."
"Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that yet—we must fight to the very end.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

“You were always so full of hope, so maddeningly tenacious. And then, oh, then, Liska, Liseczka, the worst thing of all happened.’ His voice cracks, and he looks away. ‘I fell in love.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

“Of women, he’s heard it said: “She will be the end of me,” or “She will be my undoing.” None of that is true for Liska Radost. She is not the end of anything, but the beginning of everything. He has been dead a long time, and she is his resurrection.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still