Kiara

“People liked you better when they thought you needed them.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“I know what you desire, and it’s not just your Princess, and it’s certainly not peace. Why do you think you first tried to raise the dead? Because you cared so much, or because you wanted to know if you could? To test your mettle? You don’t fear becoming nothing in death, but being nothing in life, and times of peace are not conducive to greatness.”
― Marianne Gordon, The Gilded Crown

“What was left, when your faith burned up? Did it leave the kind of ash that could encourage new growth, or only wasteland?”
― Hannah F. Whitten, The Hemlock Queen

“Nostalgia is the bittersweet acceptance of all we were and what we’ll never be again.”
― C.L. Miller, The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder