Thea

“How do you control a population? You keep the people poor and uneducated. Tell them the same lie for centuries, and tie that lie to religion.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“Him helping you with this? It goes against all his precious rules. Which means he trusts you. And that’s the thing about Brysden: under all that worry, all that anxiety, his loyalty, once you earn it, is unswerving.” He leaned in threateningly close. “Don’t fuck that up.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“I’d told her she was mine, but she hadn’t truly accepted it. Soon, she would learn exactly what that meant.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“I was a woman when it was convenient to blame me, and a girl when they wanted to use me.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning