Joyce Renik

“Though a child, I did not picture a monster—he was no creature all teeth, all vicious blue eyes behind mangled wire spectacles; his voice was not slow and reptilian, his hands not huge black claws. I knew the nature of evil; I knew its benign, easy face. He would be a man, simply.”
― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

“hour, we’d held the lines, as I had been ordered to do by my father, as I knew I must do. To falter here would have been the killing blow to our already-sundering resistance. The keep looming at my back was too valuable to be yielded to the Loyalists. Not just for its location in the”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin