Adrian Fix

“Are you ashamed of what I've done?" she dared to ask.
His brow creased. "Why would you ever think that?"
She couldn't quite look him in the eye as she ran a finger down the blanket. "Are you?"
Aedion was silent long enough that she lifted her head - but found him gazing toward the door, as though he could see through it, across the city, to the captain. When he turned to her, his handsome face was open - soft in a way she doubted many ever saw. "Never," he said. "I could never be ashamed of you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer,”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Other Wind

“The world doesn't hate you as much as you think it does.”
― Koji Suzuki, Birthday

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft