L.A. Setu

“When you’re young, fear is debilitating. Its presence clouds your mind and senses. Now, I had been afraid for so long, so ceaselessly, that it was just another bodily function to regulate—heartbeat, breath, sweat, muscles. Over the years, I’d learned how to hack the physicality of it away from the emotion.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“With the girl with the raven hair”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The cycle will go on forever until the sand swallows this cursed place and there’s nothing left of us but ghosts and dust. And then what?” “And then there will have been the people who fought for something better and the people who laid down and took it,” I spat.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“You’re already defeated before you even start,” Mische said, after one long night in which I failed to summon my magic at all, even weakly. “It knows when you have a bad attitude.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night