Dakotah

“It’s not your fault,” he repeated firmly. “It’s your burden. But it’s not your fault. There’s a difference.”
― Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep

“Words are seeds, Casiopea. With words you embroider narratives, and the narratives breed myths, and there's power in the myth. Yes, the things you name have power.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“women should have the uncontested right to enter the medical profession, being, as a general rule, notably less stupid than men.”
― Jess Kidd, Things in Jars

“She…hoped. And hope was dangerous. Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora’s box among misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn’t have ghastly claws of its own?”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights