Sumana Gupta

“I want you lot to make that your motto. What we know is that we don’t know anything.”

Nona quite liked this motto. It was an accurate summary of her entire life.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“Then this is not goodbye,” said Abigail, and she reached forward to brush a stray lock of hair behind Harrowhark’s ear, which was an instinct Harrow could not find it within herself to feel humiliated by. “I believe that we will see each other again.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“Not like this. I love this place.”

“Do you love?” said the Captain’s mouth.

Nona struggled. “Yes—no—yes,” she said, then: “I don’t know what it means. I say it, and I don’t know what it means … Did I ever know what it meant?”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“I could think of a hundred things holier than being sacrificed to something that doesn't even love you back.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Library at Hellebore