Raven Morrigan

“Some bonds were chosen, and some were fashioned by hands that were not my own. But I choose them now. If you choose to be my family, then you are my family”
― Tasha Suri, The Isle in the Silver Sea

“When a firefly dies, they can send out a signal even after they're gone.”
― Silvia Park, Luminous

“But this time will be different. We are not going to only cut off the head: we are going to cut away the entire system. And we will succeed. Because I am the axe, Nikolai. Neglect buried me as a child, but then the state pulled me from the grave. That was their fatal mistake, you see: I am the weapon made for this purpose.”
― Ray Nayler, Where the Axe Is Buried

“All she had ever wanted, all she had ever lived for, was the inverse of this perverse imprisonment. To command her own life. To command her own body, to decide to whom it was given and when.”
― Isabel Cañas, The Possession of Alba Díaz