Elisabeth

“The Nomatsi girl was there, dressed in black and sunk low in her stance. She held a cutlass, arced up in a stream of silver steel, while her black Threadwitch gown swept in the same direction … And beside her, standing tall, was the white-gowned Safiya with a pitchfork swooping in a blur of dark iron, her white, shorn skirts swinging downward. It was the circle of perfect motion. Of the light-bringer and dark-giver, the world-starter and shadow-ender. Of initiation and completion. It was the symbol of the Cahr Awen. Cahr”
― Susan Dennard, Truthwitch

“The things you name grow in power.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows