Esmee

“Ruhn looked at his sister and said softly, "You brought so much joy into my life, Bryce."
It was perhaps the only goodbye they'd be able to make.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“Some days, it seemed you couldn't break Kaladin Stormblessed with all the stones on Roshar. Then one of his men would get wounded, and you'd see him crack.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“And for the first time in an age he felt a glimmer of something stir deep inside. He felt of value.”
― John Gwynne, Malice

“My mother always had gifts for Azriel and Cassian. For the latter, the initial Solstice we’d shared here had been the first time he’d received any sort of gift, Solstice or not. I could still see the tears Cassian had tried to hide as he’d opened his presents, and the tears in my mother’s eyes as she watched him.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight