Matilda

“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

“Memory is malleable. History is mutable. All I can do is try to make sure my story isn’t lost.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“If only wars could be won on the strength of the cheering when they begin, instead of the blood and the pain and the horror that feed the gods of discord.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Return of the Thief

“You live your life, and then at the end you have to look back on it. You can either accept it or you can’t, but either way, you die with it behind you.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs