Justina

“That's not a particularly useful measure of your enemies, motive. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that harm done with explicit conscious intention of doing another person harm accounts for about two percent of all harm inflicted. That descriptor pretty much only applies to dictators in banana republics, serial killers, and PE teachers.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Just Last Night

“I felt safe with you, and in the end that wasn't enough. I'm sorry.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

“They left their daughters to grow into their hollowed Chinese, plugging English into whatever sprang a leak, stumbling on the wrong sounds, chasing intelligibility--but as Jade insisted, at least their English was beyond reproach. No trace of an accent, no problem. A hallmark of their success. A hallmark of their loss.”
― C.K. Chau, Good Fortune

“But the eye had now changed. The pupil, like a black mirror, caught reflections. The street, the cars going down the boulevards, and his young companion. She was rendered in most vivid colors.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow