Arkasha

“I don't want to be great, Zhu repeated. Her desire was the radiance of the sun, an immensity that filled every part of her without exception. Who else understood what it was to feel something of this magnitude; to want something with the entirety of their self, as she did? "I want to be the greatest.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World

“It is easy to kill with a bow, girl. How easy it is to release the bowstring and think, it is not I, not I, it is the arrow. The blood of that boy is not on my hands. The arrow killed him, not I. But the arrow does not dream anything in the night. May you dream nothing in the night either,”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny

“That's my body, but my body isn't me, she thought. The thing that feels your hands on me, that pleases you, isn't me. My body is for you, it isn't for me. She resided in her body an inch below the surface, wearing it like a doll, with a sense of ownership and pride, perhaps, but never fully being it.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World

“But one does not marry a set of virtues and talents; one marries an individual human being.”
― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point