Drika

“intervention was exactly what she wanted. A sign, a symbol, the grasping hand of some meddling but benevolent god who would reach down through a break in the clouds and shake her senseless, until she was forced to believe—really and truly—that her life had meaning and that she was destined for something more than mediocrity.”
― Alexis Henderson, An Academy for Liars

“There will always be someone who will use the power they have to hurt those who don’t deserve it. That’s why it’s important that people like you become competent enough to stand between them and those they’d otherwise harm. To let your scruples get in the way of that vital work is cowardice.”
― Alexis Henderson, An Academy for Liars

“There's nothing noble about suffering.”
― Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

“It was so much easier to hate a man than a system: vast, inhuman, bloodstained.”
― Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts