Alexandra

“If she let it linger, then she started to drown, and the only way to make those feelings stop was to burn instead.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“You love your shamans like your own family, and a knife twists in your heart every time you watch one of them die. But you have to do it. You've got to make the choices no one else can. It's death or the Chuluu Korikh. Commanders cull.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“Not lover, not husband, but more than that. A bond so deep, so permanent that it was honored over all others. Rare, cherished. Not Tamlin’s mate. Rhysand’s. I was jealous, and pissed off … You’re mine. The words slipped out of me, low and twisted, “Does he know?” The Suriel clenched the robes of its new cloak in its bone-fingers. “Yes.” “For a long while?” “Yes. Since—” “No. He can tell me—I want to hear it from his lips.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“It's not about who you are, it's about how they see you. And once you're mud in this country, you're always mud.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic