Crystal

“His fingers brushed the pommel of his sword, the cold steel a reminder of the oaths he had taken. But as the shadows of the forest swallowed him, Dain couldn't shake the question bothering his thoughts, a question that had begun years ago in the ashes of Almswood and grew louder with each mission: How much of this was justice, and how much was phobia masquerading as order?”
― Rea Alexandris, The Forgotten Flame: A Tale of Fire, Forbidden Love, and the Fight for a Kingdom

“Tress didn’t understand that it is quite possible to be so bad at something it seems implausible. In these cases, it stands to reason that such a person is in fact quite competent—because it takes true competence to feign such spectacular incompetence. It’s called the transitive property of ineptitude, and is the explanation for anything you’ve seen me do wrong ever.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Ash flopped back against her bed, her phone still clenched in her hand. She didn’t think she could go back to sleep, so she spent the rest of the night fervently sketching, including scenes from the dream. Her kitchen with its wayward utensils scattered through the air, the basement, the man with his ominous warnings, and finally
the field with the words STOP LOOKING drawn in dark hatched lines.”
― Nicole Aisling, Chasing Nightmares

“It was the kind of place where broken families hid behind the artificial beauty of happy middle-class homes.”
― Nicole Aisling, Chasing Nightmares