Jessamine

“The city’s more beautiful at night, you know: the people of the night always tell the truth.”
― Orhan Pamuk, A Strangeness in My Mind

“I’d give my life just to lay my head tonight on a bed of California stars”
― Woody Guthrie

“My point is that I am going to figure this out, like I always do. First, we’re going to find a way to get into Artemisia. We’re going to find Cress and rescue Cinder and Wolf. We’re going to overthrow Levana, and by the stars above, we are going to make Cinder a queen so she can pay us a lot of money from her royal coffers and we can all retire very rich and very alive, got it?"

Winter started to clap. "Brilliant speech. Such gumption and bravado."

"And yet strangely lacking in any sort of actual strategy," said Scarlet.

"Oh, good, I'm glad you noticed that too," said Iko. "I was worried my processor might be glitching.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“The oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed