Pipkia

“The shades of gender in her voice were intricate, like mine.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“Nangong Jingnu and Qi Yan were truly a fine match. It was just a shame that the element for Qiyan Agula, the Prince of the grass plains, was a life of heavenly river water. Water and fire cannot coexist. There is no rest until death...”
― 请君莫笑, 泾渭情殇 [Jīng Wèi Qíng Shāng]

“Only after having met you did I rediscover that it's such a simple thing to be happy.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

“It had bewildered her, back at Canaan House, how the whole of her always seemed to come back to Gideon. For one brief and beautiful space of time, she had welcomed it: that microcosm of eternity between forgiveness and the slow, uncomprehending agony of the fall. Gideon rolling up her shirt sleeves. Gideon dappled in shadow, breaking promises. One idiot with a sword and an asymmetrical smile had proved to be Harrow’s end: her apocalypse swifter than the death of the Emperor and the sun with him.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth