Michelle

“They are your men, Kaladin told himself. They need you to lead them, even if they don’t know it. How can you lead from the rear?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Ahead of us, a man was pulling a cart of cabbages out into the street. I grabbed three chunks of amethyst in one hand and slammed my other palm into the cart. It burst in to wood splinters, cabbage leaves flying up into the air and raining over the crowd, cabbage heads rolling into the street.”
― Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist

“I’m thinking that I must have been a fool in love to allow myself to be shown so little of the Spring Court. I’m thinking there’s a great deal of that territory I was never allowed to see or hear about and maybe I would have lived in ignorance forever like some pet. I’m thinking . . . I’m thinking that I was a lonely, hopeless person, and I might have fallen in love with the first thing that showed me a hint of kindness and safety. And I’m thinking maybe he knew that – maybe not actively, but maybe he wanted to be that person for someone. And maybe that worked for who I was before. Maybe it doesn’t work for who – what I am now.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“For those who dine with war and empire, the bill always comes at the end.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold