Andrew Jaden

“Good-bye, she thinks. Good-bye, kuye lam. I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

“As long as you believe that is all you are, you will never be anything but a piece of the machine.” “A piece can change the whole. It may take patience, or sacrifice, but—” “This machine? Better to break it, and build something new.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

“The Calamitous Coven.” “No.” “Eve’s Army.” “No! It ought to be about, I don’t know, sisterhood or union—” “The Ladies Union of Giving the Bastards What’s Coming to Them.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“WHEN she was alone again Baru snuffed out all the candles and thus hidden from herself she tried to let herself weep in fear. Still it would not come. She had built the dams too strong, polished the gears too perfectly. Bargained too well. She sat in the dark and fell through the hollow of herself for a time. But helplessness came uneasily to her.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant