Alethya

“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]

“And while it was true that she’d simply gone from one loveless home to another, that didn’t mean she didn’t feel the absence of love.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“I suspect, Lord, that when you combed
the constellations for my elements,
the stardust was still rife
with the ghosts of fallen angels.
I can hear that darkness tapping at my ribs
and what’s worse,
I’ve learned to sleep through the sound.”
― S.T. Gibson

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