Pearla

“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

“forcing her to spend most of her days performing cooling spells on her armpits.”
― Nadia El-Fassi, Best Hex Ever

“(What is a river but an open throat; what is water but a voice?)”
― Amal El-Mohtar, The River Has Roots

“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