Jared Saltz

“Stay,” she said softly and tugged him in until their bodies leaned together. “Stay and watch the sun set with me.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
― Thomas Sowell

“More about Howl? Sophie thought desperately. I have to blacken his name! Her mind was such a blank that for a second it actually seemed to her that Howl had no faults at all. How stupid! “Well, he’s fickle, careless, selfish, and hysterical,” she said. “Half the time I think he doesn’t care what happens to anyone as long as he’s all right—but then I find out how awfully kind he’s been to someone. Then I think he’s kind just when it suits him—only then I find out he undercharges poor people. I don’t know, Your Majesty. He’s a mess.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“A decade later, a fifteen-year-old Hiroshi would become known as the youngest swordsman ever to master the Whispering Blade. What the world would never know, was that he was the second youngest.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen