Annie

“Power did not lie in the tip of a pen. Power did not work against its own interests. Power could only be brought to heel by acts of defiance it could not ignore. With brute, unflinching force. With violence.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Those who had nothing substantial to brag about bragged the loudest.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

“She gazed at Peter and thought, 'I wish I were the night, so that I might watch your sleep with a thousand eyes.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis