Maya

“He wasn't scared of falling. All these years, he'd fallen many times. But falling on the ground still hurt, after all. If someone was there to catch him, it'd be more than wonderful.”
― 墨香铜臭, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Vol. 1

“Qin Zheng clasps my hand harder. "Fear has never ruled me," he says, like a mantra, a red blaze igniting in his irises.

A matching heat rises through my meridians. "Neither will gods.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Heavenly Tyrant

“The Plenimarans lay scattered in a wide circle. At its center, Seregil and Alec lay side by side, hands clasped between them even in death.”
― Lynn Flewelling, Shadows Return

“I think what people were is less important than what they are. And what people are is less important than what they could be.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise