Arundhati

“I am become a blade.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“You are full, Laia. Full of life and dark and strength and spirit. You are in our dreams. You will burn, for you are an ember in the ashes.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“This was not a world of men. It was a world of gods, a time of great powers. It was the era of divinity walking in man, of wind and water and fire. And in warfare, she who held the power asymmetry was the inevitable victor.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic