Cassie

“Greed and hope aren't opposites. Greed and hope are twins grabbing for the same thing, one in fear and one in faith.”
― Eiren Caffall, All the Water in the World

“Bronca's not sure how Manhattan makes such a quiet statement sound so awful--but maybe it's the fact that there is compassion in his gaze, instead of coldness, when he says it. Coldness would be reprehensible, horrifying. Compassion is worse, because it cannot be dismissed as evil.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“It was important, they'd told her, to know where her food came from, and to understand that not just one, but many deaths had enabled her survival. Therefore it was crucial that she use every part of the animal, as much as she could, and take no more than she needed. To kill under those circumstances, or to survive, was respectful. To kill for any other reason was monstrous.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“That was how I learned that the world changes between heartbeats; that life is never an absolute, but always a wager.”
― Jodi Picoult, Wish You Were Here