Shass

“What would you say if I tortured you?” asked the bandit leader conversationally. Halla blinked at him. “Err…’ow,’ probably? ‘Stop, stop, stop,’ something like that?” What a bizarre question. What does he expect me to say? The bandit leader’s face took on an expression that Sarkis would have found immediately familiar. “I meant about being a wonderworker.” “Oh. I mean, it’s torture,” said Halla uncertainly. “I’ll probably say anything you want to make it stop. But I’m still not going to be able to make anyone invisible afterward, if that’s what you’re getting at.”
― T. Kingfisher, Swordheart

“Nanny had an unexpected gift for languages; she could be comprehensibly incompetent in a new one within an hour or two. What she spoke was one step away from gibberish but it was authentically foreign gibberish. And she knew that Granny Weatherwax, whatever her other qualities, had an even bigger tin ear for languages than she did for music.”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

“But I am made up of more than my roots; I have grown aboveground as well. My branches reach out in different directions. My limbs have faced wind and snow and ice and rain. Leaves open to the sun and close in the dark. I guess what I'm saying is, I'm grateful for every new root I have discovered lately, and for every new bud that sprouts, despite everything.”
― Uzma Jalaluddin, Hana Khan Carries On

“Sarkis occasionally thought that his own mind believed he was an idiot. He only wished that he had evidence his mind was wrong.”
― T. Kingfisher, Swordheart