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“If you’re focused on moving from sign to sign, there’s no opportunity for happy accidents.”
― Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

“Ugly women, beautiful women, what foolishness. Most of us are lucky if we're born with a measure of common sense in our heads.”
― Nghi Vo, Into the Riverlands

“Victra murmurs. “You’re the bookish one. Was it a man who said ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’?” A lancer brings her gauntlets. “It must have been—to imagine something so petty as scorn to be the utmost misery a woman could suffer. What, I wonder, would he make of a mother who has seen her husband sold like meat and her babe nailed to a tree?” She dons her gauntlets. “Perhaps: wrath, I am thee? They come for our children, Virginia.” She turns to me and cups my face with one hand. “Do not fear for me. Instead, pity them.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“Be wary of tyrants: they will help you today and own you tomorrow.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer