Daevala

“Jade turned to Malachite, incredulous. “We’re going to help them fight off a Fell flight.” Malachite didn’t take her gaze off the sky. “I am.” A growl rose in Jade’s throat. She shouldn’t have been surprised. The bloodline resemblance between Moon and Malachite was particularly strong, though Moon couldn’t see it. And you have five of them back home in the nurseries, she reminded herself.”
― Martha Wells, The Harbors of the Sun

“Do you need to know a person to feel sympathy for them? You’re kind, Arlo, and you feel things deeply. That’s not something to be embarrassed about, you know? There’s a great many people who go their whole lives without every learning to feel that compassion, and it my opinion, it’s better to feel too much of that than to look on at suffering and feel nothing at all.”
― Ashley Shuttleworth, A Dark and Hollow Star

“I am an artist,” Wit said. “I should thank you not to demean me by insisting my art must be trying to accomplish something. In fact, you shouldn’t enjoy art. You should simply admit that it exists, then move on. Anything else is patronizing.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“Do try to focus.” “Well, I do try. I simply fail.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War