Kiara

“His smile faltered when our eyes met, but he composed himself and held out his hand for a limp handshake that made me shiver.”
― C.L. Miller, The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder

“But you can’t just cry wolf when things don’t go your way. What you must realize, Alice, is that you cannot just take refuge in feminism when it suits you.”
― 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

“If you knew what lay on the other side, what happens to the hungry, hungry for what isn’t theirs, if you knew that the Nothing of your Onaistus is a blessing compared to what really happens, you wouldn’t be so quick to slit each other’s throats.”
― Marianne Gordon, The Antlered King