Emily Shark

“Blink, and you're twenty-six, and you're called into the dean's office because he can tell that your heart's not in it anymore, and he advises you to find another path, and he assures you that you'll find your calling, but that's the whole problem, you've never felt called to any one thing.
There is no violent push in one direction, but a softer nudge a hundred different ways, and now all of them feel out of reach.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“You can't do this,' I said, though I had nothing whatsoever to back up my statement.
'Why not? I seem to have an army behind me.'
'We have a Saint,' Brasti said, pointing at Kest.
'Your Saint seems to be unconscious,' the Duke replied.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Traitor's Blade