Kiara

“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

“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

“This war was coming, whether you helped to birth it or not. You are not the mother, only the midwife.”
― Marianne Gordon, The Antlered King

“Been a long time since there’d been anyone in her corner but her. Her corner was a fucking desert.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils