Kathy Shin

“How about him, then?" She nodded at Horst. "Are you and he lovers?"

Even Cabal was taken aback by this. "Hardly, madam. That's my brother."

The creature looked at Cabal for some seconds as if expecting further clarification. "And?" she said when it was not forthcoming.

"I draw the line at incest, quite putting the vexed subject of homosexuality to the side.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“Life doesn't fit the Hollywood formula; there are no act breaks to orient you, no running times printed helpfully on the back of the box. So you do your best to line up each shot, each frame. You make sure that if this shot ends up being the last, it's damn well going to be bold or bittersweet or beautiful enough to go out on.”
― Mishell Baker, Impostor Syndrome

“The most important things we have are dreams," Isabelle said. "Without them we cannot conjure new truths or better worlds. Where we get into trouble is when we tell ourselves dreams don't matter, or we let other people tell us our dreams are silly or stupid. I dream of peace, and I won't give it up.”
― Curtis Craddock, An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors

“When we weigh up the balance sheet of our lives, it's always easy to see the costs. People we've hurt, mistakes we've made. But the other side of the balance can be harder to make out. How do you measure what didn't happen? Friends who didn't die because of something you did, wars that didn't start, cities that never burned. That has to count for something, doesn't it?"

"You can't know what would have happened," Winter said. "Maybe everyone would have been better off."

"It's possible," Abraham said placidly. "But you can't know that for certain, either. Out of all the possible worlds, we can't know if this is the best, the worst, or somewhere in between. But it's one we've got.”
― Django Wexler, The Infernal Battalion