Nefeli

“The idea of thanking the Plague that killed thousands of Ilyans makes me lose my apetite for even sticky buns. Thanking the thing that caused so much pain and death and discrimination. But all anyone cares about now is who the Plague didn't kill.”
― Powerless, Lauren Roberts

“Because I tried once. Tried to step in and help a little girl who reminded me of myself. So scared, and yet, so determined to never show it. When she looked up at me, the fire in her gaze reflected my own.”
― Powerless, Lauren Roberts

“A dimwitted king is a dead king. A dimwitted Enforcer is a defeated empire.”
― Powerless, Lauren Roberts

“Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? but that somehow in the streets of London, on the ebb and flow of things, here, there, she survived, Peter survived, lived in each other, she being part, she was positive, of the trees at home; of the house there, ugly, rambling all to bits and pieces as it was; part of people she had never met; being laid out like a mist between the people she knew best, who lifted her on their branches as she had seen the trees lift the mist, but it spread ever so far, her life, herself.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway