Mary

“Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse?”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“His voice was a shadow. "It roots me again. You remind me what it is to have a home.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mask Falling

“Death first to vultures and scavangers.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“The night we met, I had thought he was the most beautiful and terrible thing I had ever laid eyes on. There was nothing terrible before me now. Sleep had stripped him of his Rephaite armour. He was in the same position, features soft and unburdened, one hand on the sheets between us.
In silence, I turned my hand so it lay palm up, and the shadows of my fingers fell across his knuckles. Then I drifted back to sleep.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mask Falling