Rachel

“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

“This was the key to flourishing in graduate school. You could do anything if you were delusional.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“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

“And over there—creative writing students.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis