Castles of Air

“The way to free women isn’t by demanding they adapt to the traits men are praised for. Please remember that, Tian-Tian.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Heavenly Tyrant

“When June looked back at herself, she remembered a blank person, an empty mirror. Other children loudly explored the world to discover who they wanted to be, but June had been silent and featureless as the surface of a mountain lake. She just listened.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Listeners

“It was a difficult journey to picture unless you’d taken it yourself. For many years, June had thought she was the woman she was despite who she’d been as a child. Now she knew she was the woman she was because of who she’d been as a child. Only a person who understood nothing about others had the patience to so thoroughly study them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Listeners

“Give us three weeks, and we can prepare a detailed report!” “We ain’t got three weeks. We barely got three hours.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Edgedancer