Bellerouge

“Well, aren’t you dangerous”—and men had been saying that to her ever since.”
― Alexis Henderson, An Academy for Liars

“All things have a value. Sometimes the value is paid in coin. Other times, it is paid in time and sweat. And finally, sometimes it is paid in blood.

Humanity seems most eager to use this latter currency. And we never note how much of it we’re spending, unless it happens to be our own.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside

“I teach you to be warriors in the garden so you will never be gardeners in the war.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“A tree with strong roots laughs at storms.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, The Night Masquerade