Melek

“I feel obligated to tell you that adventures are, on a whole, stunningly bad ideas, best avoided at all costs.”
― Michael McClung, The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble's Braids

“Arin, are you all right?"
"How?" He managed. "How did her arm break?"
"She fell of a ladder."
He must have visibly relaxed, because his cousin raised her brows and looked ready to scold.
"I imagined something worse," he tried to explain.
She appeared to understand his relief that pain, if it had to come, came this time without malice. Just and accident. Done by no one. The luck, sometimes of life. A bad slip that ends with bread, and someone to bind you.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“Arin wished Roshar wouldn’t do this, wouldn’t slip on false arrogance as if it were mourning garb worn in the service of a joke.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“Arin, why are you so transparent? Whenever you worry, you start fixing things. Draining nasty gunk from a hoof is the least of it. I don’t know what’s worse, watching you do that or knowing how hard it will always be for you to keep yourself to yourself.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss