Sarah

“Being alive is not the same as living. I hope someday you'll have a chance to realise the difference.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Perfugium was no victory. It was a holocaust. And for me? It was the end. For there are endings, Reader, have I not said? All that follows here, all that must follow, that must be, happened to a different man. A lesser man. I have consoled myself on sleepless nights—and there have been thousands—that she did not suffer, that she felt no pain. More, I have consoled myself that they could not have found her body. There must have been nothing of her left.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Ashes of Man

“It is a fine gift to have others believe in you, sinner. It is a different boon entire to believe in yourself.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“You are not replaceable," he said, his hands trembling against her shoulders. "You are not required to make your death convenient. You are allowed to be important to people.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised