Vathna

“You have taken advantage of my silence in every way, robbed me of my dignity and my pride. You have used me for your own gain. Now, in your hour of greatest need, you will use me again. And yet, I will still risk my life to save yours. I swore and oath to this country on the day I donned this coat, to protect you and every other citizen from harm so long as there is breath in my body.”
― Marie Lu, Skyhunter

“I was a really lonely kid. The advantage to being unpopular is you get a lot more reading done.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“The mere idea of having that conversation made me want to crawl into a hole and die.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Vespertine

“The first humans who got possessed, the ones who went on to become saints; they weren’t all strong enough to control unbound spirits, were they? They couldn’t have been. At least some of them must have fought with their spirits the same way I do.”
“Yes,” the revenant said, after a long, ancient-feeling pause. “They were our friends.”
“Then does that mean we’re—”
“You had better not push it, nun. I can possess you whenever I want. I could do far worse than make you murder someone. I could make you try on hats.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Vespertine