Pearla

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

“War didn’t end, not so cleanly—it just kept building up in little hurts that piled on one another until they exploded afresh into raw new wounds.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“No one who feels nothing would work so tirelessly to get their feelings back.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“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