Miriam

“The scariest monsters are the ones who seem the most like you.”
― Samira Ahmed, Internment

“My mother had enough magic to give me three blessings before she died,” I said, and he instinctively bent in to hear it. “The first was wit; the second beauty, and the third—that fools should recognize neither.” Irina”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

“Would you change that bulb, then?" He held out a fresh bulb from the drawer beside him. It was a perfect glass bubble with a tangle of fine wire inside.

Thaniel took it and felt unqualified to be doing anything with it. "Why can't you?"

"I'd have to stand on the desk." He shifted. "I'm afraid of heights."

"And you can't even stand on a desk?"

"Shall we not dwell on it?" Mori said, at a slightly higher pitch then usual.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

“They can take away my freedom, but not my fantastic ability to hold a grudge.”
― Samira Ahmed, Internment