Yarna

“Good night. 'A thousand times good night.' That's Shakespeare, although why Juliet says it a thousand times, I don't know. Probably because Romeo wasn't listening the first time. Men should wake up and pay attention.”
― Sarah Morgan, Maybe This Christmas

“…the spider mech spun around and reared up to walk on its four hindmost legs, waving the front ones menacingly. It stretched a half dozen of its eyes at the nearest strolling passenger and whistled, “Do you look? At what do you look? I look, too! Am I food? Are you food?” Only to turn its attention on the next passenger as the first one fled. “And you, do you also look?”
― Ann Leckie, Provenance

“Fairytales were lies that belittled children, vilified women, disgraced men, and glorified shallow desires. Mothers and fathers betrayed their offspring, husbands and wives manipulated one another, princes kissed sleeping princesses without asking permission, and princesses married them anyway.”
― Natalia Jaster, Lie

“Gwen had no doubt that whoever he was, his ancestors had absolutely once stared down the business end of guillotine.

You don't get cheekbones like that without oppressing some peasants.”
― Erin Sterling, The Kiss Curse