Jinni

“Whenever righteousness declines and unrighteousness prevails, I manifest myself on earth. For the protection of the righteous and the destruction of the wicked, for the establishment of religion, I take form from age to age.”
― Sharon Maas, Sons of Gods: Mahabharata

“There exist three poisons in life: desire, anger, and ignorance. One poison is the root of the other two. To attain enlightenment, you must swallow the root of your poisons, so that you die. You die many times to attain the enlightenment of Buddha.”
― H.S. Kim, Waxing Moon

“God had seen fit to place two kinds of people on this earth: those who, though they had nothing, would give you half of that nothing; and those who would give nothing, though they had all the riches in the world. And while it is blasphemy to say, I believe that no amount of piety or churchgoing changed one kind of human being into the other.”
― Jodi Daynard, The Midwife's Revolt

“He who dares not to choose his path will end as the stair upon which the powerful tread.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men