Nadine K

“Once, when he a child, Niko had asked his aunt Shae why she believed in the gods. She'd given him a strange but clear-eyed look.
"Because I've felt them watching me."
Niko had been disappointed. He'd expected a more rational explanation from the Weather Man. Now, at last, he understood her answer. With each step he took in the snow, Niko sank beneath the feeling of some terrible attention turning toward him, reaching from the other side of the world like a curse.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy

“On his deathbed, the disgraced king is said to have lamented, "I'll be remembered not for who I was, but for what I wasn't. Perhaps it's for the best. Let the gods judge me for what I did not do.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy

“The point of revenge wasn’t to heal. The point was that the exhilaration, however temporary, drowned out the hurt.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“Sounds like quite the existential crisis. Perhaps consider having it elsewhere.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea