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“Flayed and boneless, he faced the creature he had awakened, this woman of gods’ blood and fury.”
― 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

“She breathed out and the last of the ghosts lifted. Not just [redacted]’s. There had been other ghosts trapped here: the spirit of a ferocious teenage girl and the boy she loved. They were gone now too, passed into the realm of memory where they belonged, where they could rest. As the spirits faded, so did the last of the ties that had bound Misaki to the horizon for so many years, dissolving like threads of blood in water.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“I'd lived enough years now to know that there were some ghosts that haunted you forever.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting