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“I don’t like this.” A pit of anxiety grows in my gut. “It does not matter if you like it or not,” comes Anassa’s reply. “Focus on getting through it.”
― Sable Sorensen, Fury Bound

“Their fear is a balm. I’ll be everyone’s villain to scare them away from you.”
― Sable Sorensen, Fury Bound

“Taran thumped his glass down on the table, glowering through his drunken haze. “I swore an oath too, you know.” He gestured wobbily at us. “Just because I don’t argue about it all the time like the three of you doesn’t mean I don’t take it—” He hiccupped. “—seriously.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“Those who are starved are most desperate. And even the Ancestors know that women have long been starved for power.” We went our separate ways.”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress