Viki

“Then she reached out and held him. Cold. But what did that matter? So was she.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“The machine can summon spirits, but it can’t create art. Art is about intent, Yumi. A rainbow isn’t art, beautiful though it might be. Art is about creation. Human creation. I don’t care how well a machine piles rocks. The fact that you do it is what matters to me.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“He was frightened of everything, it sometimes seemed, and he hated that about himself. Fear and hatred: often, it seemed that those were the only two qualities he possessed. Fear of everyone else; hatred of himself.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“In that moment of awe, Takeru realized how much he owed this woman, who had borne his children, who had fought, and fought, and fought for a family she had never asked for. She had given him her life and demanded nothing in return. Mamoru hadn’t inherited his strength from his father. It had come from her.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen