Tiara

“Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order had wrought a galaxy in which good capitulated to evil, where human feelings—Aryn’s feelings—were crushed under the weight of Jedi nonattachment.”
― Paul S. Kemp, Deceived

“Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human..”
― Esther Dalseno, Drown

“The president is not at all like the powerful icon I imagined her to be. She’s more like I remember Amma: small and delicate with a sari that dances behind her as she walks. Of course, the president is clad in white, the color that shows eternal mourning of a lost child, while Amma never wore white. She wore reds and oranges and deep greens. Colors of celebration, of happiness. Perhaps she wears white now. Now that I am dead to her.”
― Holly Bodger