Ali Touesnard

“You don’t need to become some impossible ideal. You don’t need to become sweet and simpering. You can give everyone that I Will Slay My Enemies look—which is my favorite look, by the way. You can keep that sharpness I like so much, that boldness and fearlessness. I don’t want you to ever lose those things, to cage yourself.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“I am the rock against which the surf crashes. A rock never had to hold a lunge, though.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“She made it to the stones before she fell to her knees, so hard the rock bit into her bones. Was she worth being counted?”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“As he put it, “I’ve put too much of myself into this mountain to quit now, without giving it everything I’ve got.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air