Aurégane

“You'd think I'd be used to this by now."
"Sorasa?"
"Death," Dom clipped. "Though I supposed they are interchangeable.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Blade Breaker

“Take your sword and bleed for me, and I will bleed for you. Win us the crown our ancestors could only dream of.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Realm Breaker

“You didn’t turn away. Even when you didn’t like what you saw in me. You kept looking.” Darlington’s gaze shifted and flickered like firelight. Gold and then amber. Bright and then shadowed. “Maybe I know a fellow monster when I see one.” It felt like a cold hand shoving her away. Like a warning. She wasn’t stupid enough to ignore it. “Maybe,” Alex whispered. She made herself turn, leave the ballroom, walk down that dark hall. She forced herself not to run. Maybe they were just two killers, cursed to endure each other’s company, two doomed spirits trying to find their way home. Maybe they were monsters who liked the feeling of another monster looking back at them. But enough people had abandoned them both. She wasn’t going to be the next.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“So much of the world rests on the shoulders of two young women, with men squawking at our edges.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Blade Breaker