Selene Evenstar

“To others, the dance might have seemed artful, yet to me, it was routine. I had memorized this method over the past year as I'd moved from place to place: much like picking a lock, some combination of these gestures and exchanges worked to win the right attentions. Or perhaps that was not quite it: perhaps I was more like a man dabbing bloods and scents upon his flesh as he stood before a darkened wood, waiting for some predator within to pounce on him and spirit him away.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, A Drop of Corruption

“You cannot abuse power that you do not possess.”
― Caitlyn Paxson, A Widow's Charm

“It is a man’s world in which we live, Skraeda. Let them think us lambs, when truly, we are wolves.”
― Demi Winters, The Road of Bones

“Love was a sacrifice at the altar of power.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night