Finn

“After the last twenty-four hours and one night in the first-floor barracks, I’m starting to realize that this quadrant is a strange mix of we-might-die-tomorrow hedonism and brutal efficiency in the name of the same reason.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing (Part 1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“What’s his name?” asked the dust-wife. Marra blinked at her. “Who?” “The dog, child! Dogs have human names. It’s what keeps them from being wolves.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“When instinct tells you to pay attention and choose tenderness, do it. Community is humanity's greatest strength and community at its core is just love: work motivated by that love, comforts created out of love, bonds fed by love or at least for the desire of it.

Being young is so frightening because it feels like you don't have the power to enact dynamic change. In cases like this, in stories like this, where what is happening is so inexplicable and out of control that all you can do is try to give the strong person in your life the pleasure of your time or the snack from your lunch tray or a hug in the morning or the warmth and privacy of your car during their lunch hour…

If it is all you can give, it is enough. It has meaning. It is helping.

I love you for trying and please, please, please, don't let time steal this part of you.”
― K. Ancrum, Icarus

“He could hear her voice in his mind, asking him why he was still waiting for his life to begin. All his years of caution, all those years when she had asked him
seemingly every day what he thought he was getting ready for. Those days when she'd told him that the race had already started, and he needed to join in or be left behind. Livira’s advice would be, and always had been, to grab what was before him with both hands. And now she would be saying that if he really had for so long been saving himself for something better, something extraordinary... how was this not it?”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy