Kiira

“War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Every woman draws a circle around herself. Sometimes she has to be the only thing inside it.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.”
― David Brin, The Postman

“Mags always said the solstices and equinoxes were the times magic burned closest to the surface of things, when any self-respecting hedge-witch or wild-hearted woman ought to be outdoors, with moonlight on her skin and night around her shoulders.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches