Teaspoon

“Fools pay attention to words in a fight. Warriors take advantage of them.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“It will,” Wit said, “but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“People think that stories can be walled off, kept outside and separate. They can’t. Stories are inside you”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe; it gives life back to those who no longer exist.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire