Henry Digenan

“Good people didn’t hate without a reason, so they grasped at any pretext, no matter how small, that gave them permission to hate. A line in a holy book. The color of a person’s skin. The brand of their magic. They were not in the habit of taking a second look or giving chances. Their fear was too great and their need to defend themselves too dire. They always lost at the end. Life was change. It would come to them, as inevitable as the sunrise, despite all their flailing.”
― Ilona Andrews, Iron and Magic

“It hurts,” I said. “It hurts so much it makes me feel like there’s nothing else. After, I feel like less of a person. More like I’m a piece of metal, thrust into the fire, over and over.”

“And they’re hammering you into shape?”

“No,” I confessed. “Mostly, I get to hold the hammer. There’s that, at least.”
― Wildbow, Twig

“Emotion. It is what defines men—though ironically you are poor vessels for it. It fills you up and breaks you, unless you find someone to share the burden.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“In retrospect, it might not have been the most brilliant idea to taunt the primeval engine of entropy and destruction.”
― Wildbow, Pact