Katie

“She took a deep breath. ‘If I survive, I will save your wife.’ She looked down at him, standing on the level below. ‘I know you do not recognise it, Mr Pike, but that is what honour looks like.”
― Alison Goodman

“They’ve all gone completely mad.”
“Throes of victory,” Rin said. “Growing pains.”
“They’re skinning people alive,” Venka said.
“Because they traded little girls for food rations.”
“Oh. Fair enough.” Venka flicked an invisible speck of dust from her wrist. “I hope they castrated them, too.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually face crucifixion if it were suddenly necessary. Yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together. I know from experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he’s too long over his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I hate men individually the more I love humanity.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Which way do we run when we see danger: away from it, or towards it?"
"It depends on what the danger is," Helen said.
"No. It depends on what is at stake.”
― Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Pact