Pearla

“In three, two, one, action.” The McCoy family stares at him numbly. “And cut!” Plutarch crosses to the McCoys. “Sorry. Obviously, I wasn’t clear. When you heard them call Louella, it was a big shock, right? ‘Oh, no!’ Maybe you gasped or cried out her name.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Rin didn’t want to forgive. She wanted to stay angry. She’d been nursing this resentment for too long. She couldn’t just let this go; she felt like she’d been cheated of something she was owed.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“Elm’s eyes narrowed, jumping from Jespyr to Ravyn to me. When he noted the choke of red up my neck,”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“so slow I wanted to scream,”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window