Charvi

“We do not look back, Chaol. It helps no one and nothing to look back. We can only go on.”
There she was, that queen looking out at him, a hint of the ruler she was becoming. And it knocked the breath out of him, because it made him feel so strangely young—when she now seemed so old. “What if we go on,” he said, “only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?”
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. “Then it is not the end.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“The world was beautiful, and she was so grateful to be in it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“I like to think that, the more I stand out of the way, the more Sappho shows through. This is an amiable fantasy (transparency of self) within which most translators labor. If light appears,

'not ruining the eyes (as Sappho says)
but strengthening, nourishing and watering,'
- Aelius Aristides Orations

we undo a bit of cloth.”
― Anne Carson, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“I do not have endless patience," Balekin growls.
"Cultivate it," Cardan says, and with a small bow, he navigates us away from Balekin and Madoc.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince