Samantha

“I loved her for her strength, for her beautiful brute force, for seeing what no one else did. I loved her for everything the world constantly used against her. I loved her for continuing anyway.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“The things men will do in pursuit of their egos. If they'll tear down countries for it, maybe they could do something good with it, too.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“This realization - the realization that my goal, and the things I chose to sacrifice in my pursuit of it, no longer belonged to me alone - crushed me so suddenly that I could feel myself swaying beneath this new responsibility.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“The worst thing, though,' I continued slowly, ' is to think that they are all buried somewhere in a hole, with so many other slaves. And I hate their deaths. But what I hate more is that there is no one left to remember their lives.'
No one but me.
'And who the hell are we,' he finally said, voice low and thick, 'to carry something so precious?”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds