Elysian

“Grandmas didn't die from stuff like that. Grandmas went on and on, enduring year after year, shriveled and worn but somehow ageless.”
― Christina Henry, The Girl in Red

“At deception he means. Perhaps I am better than some, but every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

“Burst and swirl and fly around, their wings shining with all the colors of the universe.”
― Kacen Callender, King and the Dragonflies

“Those who bear children hold the keys to life and death, and their ill wishes are to be feared.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune