Typhaine

“I pledge my life to the unseen world,” she said, her voice ringing loud and clear. “My soul to the protection of those who suffer. On my life and my soul I swear to never stand quiet before abuse or stay my hand when my strength may aid the world’s good. I pledge my life and my soul to the spirits, and those who aid me I will bind in solemn promise: power for service, strength for obedience, a servant to the Court and the spirits it defends until the end of our days. This is my oath, and may my life be forfeit before ever I am forsworn.”
― Rachel Aaron, Spirit's End

“Men took themselves so seriously and seemed to insist on arguing even the most trivial points.”
― Barbara Pym, The Barbara Pym Collection Volume One: A Glass of Blessings / Some Tame Gazelle / and Jane and Prudence

“Amelia Edward’s Thousand Miles Up the Nile, Gertrude Bell’s Persian Pictures, and Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco, and Cameroons.”
― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive