ekaterina

“If he’s a monster, then I’m his creator.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“How do I stay calm? Simple. I recognize that I am afraid because I still have something to lose, and if I'm afraid, then it hasn't been lost yet. It means I have a chance to change the outcome.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“Sometimes she wished she’d died in the hospital with her father, to be remembered and mourned for her possibilities, rather than live day by day growing ever lesser. Now it didn’t matter if she’d been an alchemist, or a healer, or anything else. To anyone who ever learned of it, she would only be that one thing. Women were always defined by the lowliest thing they could be called.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“It could be the greatest nation in the world, the most magnificent empire there ever existed. But if it could not keep its own children and fed, was it really something worth fighting to save?”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress