Dand'li

“Strength is easy to fake, Fionamara. Vulnerability is hard. Yet here you sit.”
― S.A. MacLean, Voidwalker

“Vanity, vanity, taught Madame D’Artois. Everything we treasure has a price. And everything we have will slip away. She told us we were dust and our lives brief as grass. We might understand this if we were truly wise—but I lacked wisdom.”
― Allegra Goodman, Isola

“It shouldn’t have been surprising to her that when given the choice of whether to help others, many instead willfully chose to hurt them. As a child, she had been taught that it was the villains who made that choice, but now she realized it was actually the boastful kings and lords—the ones who accepted love but not responsibility.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“I still feel like I don’t fit, but I’ve stopped trying to force myself into the spaces that aren’t made for me.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits