Ryn

“Aden, I’m not fixed, she said, the words holding despair. You were never broken. There’s nothing to fix.”
― Nalini Singh, Shards of Hope

“Zaira had no dealings with children. Not even Arrow children. “What am I supposed to do?” she said to Aden. “Pick her up.” “Like a sack of supplies?” “A bit more carefully.”
― Nalini Singh, Shards of Hope

“We are not that anymore. We are not only assassins trained to die and to kill. We do not abandon the weak or the hurt. And we never, ever leave our own behind." That, he decided at that instant, would be the new motto of the squad, be what all trainee Arrows were taught. No Arrow is disposable. No Arrow is to be left behind.”
― Nalini Singh, Shards of Hope

“Sascha. The only child she had ever borne. The cardinal who everyone had told Nikita was flawed, but who she’d known was a power who could not be allowed to come into her own. To do so would equal her death. So she’d crushed her child, and in so doing, saved her life and forever lost her.”
― Nalini Singh, Shards of Hope