Alethya

“God ringed you round with hounds and cornered you, then speared you with your back against a tree.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

“Even as ashes, you were sparkling, and impossible to hold, and dancing in the wind, and then, unable to defy gravity.”
― Waka Hirako, マイ・ブロークン・マリコ [Mai burōkun Mariko]

“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Comfort was the drug she hadn’t understood until it was too late and she was hooked on cups of tea and book-lined shelves, nights uninterrupted by the wail of sirens and the ceaseless churning of helicopters overhead.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent