Alison

“Giving up because you know a dream can never come true and simply sitting and waiting for fate to claim you... Or fighting against fate and crying out against the dying light, even though you know that dream will never be realized. Those are decidedly different things.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1

“I am not talented at all. It's just that I spend more time thinking about art than others. Also, thank you for your kind words, but... art still requires you to study various techniques and such. So when you simply call it talent like that, it makes it sound like I haven't done anything...”
― Tsubasa Yamaguchi, ブルーピリオド 1 [Blue Period 1]

“But she didn’t want to be strong. Because if she were strong then she would be sober, and if she were sober she would have to consider the consequences of her actions. Then she’d have to look into the chasm.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis