Hannah K.

“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers, also.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

“She's just one girl," snapped the Wellmother. "What kind of cowards are you?"
"Not just one girl," said Nina. The whispering rose in her. Fjerdan women. Fjerdan girls, crying for justice, screaming in the silence of the earth. She opened her mouth and let them speak.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I wish Jess had that sword. I wish I had one of my own. Nor and Rayani, too. That swords were something granted to us at a certain age, like tampons and puberty, and we were taught to use them, responsibly and with honor, that chivalry was an actual thing, not in the damsels in distress sense, but in the sense that we look out for one another and sometimes you might need my sword and sometimes I might need your sword, but we're never standing alone in the middle of a battlefield, defenseless.”
― Joy McCullough, We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire

“Then there were the notes, made with a half-dozen different pens and markers, but all in the same business-like hand. They circled and pointed and underlined very urgently. They made bulleted lists and eager exclamation points in the margins. They contradicted one another and referred to one another in third person.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys