Elizabeth

“She had never really seen a pair of eyes like this. It was like standing in the doorway to a dark room, like balancing on a threshold, holding a lantern up and watching how it kissed some things gold and left other things in shadow. It was the kind of dark that hid and held a lot of things. A hot fluid dark, a summer tide pool dark, a wild breathless dark.”
― Nina Varela, Crier's War

“She carried the same intensity about her, like heat waves rising from her skin, even though she was just standing in the doorway and not currently in the middle of saving Crier's life. Like she was more than a human girl. Like she was a summer storm made flesh.”
― Nina Varela, Crier's War

“just had a near-death experience,” she said, “let me have my little moment.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“I need you to trust me.
I need you to be trustworthy.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth