Jenny

“Wouldn’t it be easier keep your victim faceless?”
I shuddered. “Not a victim.”
“What else do you call one hemmed in by fate?”
“Human,” I said, bitterness creeping into my voice.
“What about guilt, then? Why open yourself to pain?”
“Guilt is what makes you accountable.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen

“Nay, it is the coming storm. The first sign is fear. The second is always fire. Your people are afraid, and now the fires burn.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“So will you see me again before I’m a goat?”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen

“I’d rather my sons living, and my daughters safe, than a chance at glory for unborn descendants.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale