Shelly

“Money is only one kind of power. Faith is power, too. Love is power. Slaughter and madness are both roads to power. Certainly, symbols are power – you wear one wherever you go, that purse you carry. And you wear others when you decide to dress yourself, how to look at men and women, how to carry your body and direct your gaze. And all these symbols can raise people to labour or war.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

“His animal form was nondescript but tidy, rather like his favorite waistcoat: his pelt the same sandy color as his hair but with a sheen of black about the face and neck. He was not very big, mostly because he was not a very big human, and the basic principles of conservation of mass still applied whether supernatural or not. Werewolves had to obey the laws of physics just like everyone else. The”
― Gail Carriger, Soulless

“Good is not a thing you are. It's a thing you do.”
― G. Willow Wilson, Ms. Marvel (2014-2015) #5

“If you're a monster, I'm a monster.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows