Alhena

“So I am to sit here and feed you information,” Cardan says, leaning against a hickory tree. “And you’re to go charm royalty? That seems entirely backward.”
I fix him with a look. “I can be charming. I charmed you, didn’t I?”
He rolls his eyes. “Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“If I was given the ability to foretell one event in the future, I wish that that fate would tell me when you will walk into my life from the day I was born.
That way every day of my life would be making a step closer to you.
I will be hoping for tomorrow like a freezing traveler yearning for a warm fireplace, even if tomorrow will greet me with a storm or blizzard.
Because my yearning for you is so vivid that it could embellish every mired land and trenches in the world with a layer of gold.”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“It is very hard to be human, little fox. Even the humans themselves don’t do a great job of it.”
― Julie Kagawa, Shadow of the Fox

“Xiao Chiye was like the blazing sun. He was also like the wind from the grassland. He stood out from the masses. To Shen Zechuan, hiding that handkerchief on that day with the gloomy and damp rain and snow was like hiding a rousing and passionate dream. In this dream, there was the unrestrained galloping of horses over a thousand li1 of grasslands, and the spreading of wings soaring through ten thousand li of clear sky. These eventually turned into an indescribable glimpse—one he would be hard-pressed to recount in detail.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1