Muryoutaisuu

“This had become a mantra for Isaac. If you lose a fortune, you can always earn another, he pointed out. But if you lose your good name, you can never get it back.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

“Warden, please don't dissuade me from the solitary mote of joy I have left in my tragedy of a life. I'm being hunted by a tyrant, my entire family is missing or dead, and I'm fresh out of the torture chamber. Please, just let me enjoy my coffee.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Dawn Chorus

“Food feeds the belly, thoughts feed the mind, but love is what feeds the heart.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Part of me feared, before that night. That I was a fool for wanting to know you. For seeing you in everything, everywhere I turned,” he said. “I thought it was a sentence. A haunting. Until I realized it was a gift to be haunted by you.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mask Falling