Maria

“Aye, we’re family when fighting to the last, but the real family is among the fallen. Why else do we stagger half-blind after every battle? Why else do we look upon dead kin and feel so abandoned? They left without us, that’s why.
A soldier knows this. A soldier saying different is a Hood-damned liar.”
― Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams

“Solovey," Vasya said, drawing the door nearly to. "I love you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

“Ah, my love. Forgive me.’
He set out, boots crunching on the dead.
Returned to the world.
Draconus.”
― Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams

“Quick Ben. You snake-eyed shifty know-it-all bastard from the bung-hole of Seven Cities. I never liked you. Never trusted you, even when I had to. The things you know about, why I—”
― Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams