Rachel

“I stand up from the piano stool and clasp my hands above my belly as I wait, finding a dark satisfaction that, as the stairs clack, she’s coming directly to me. I feel the pull of her, her stubborn heartbeat.”
― Morgan Dante, Unholy with Eyes like Wolves

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― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“He was as powerless as the dead, but with none of the relief of it. At every moment he knew, awfully, that he was still alive, and that while he was alive he had to keep going.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World

“If he’d accepted the girl’s flirtation—which he might have, because he was pretending—Lady Ki wouldn’t have sent him a warning.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World