Eva

“Lady Rui's jaw was tight with the same intensity Zhu had glimpsed earlier: a compressed rage that had as its heart the female desire to survive all that sought to make her nothing.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“Is the world so very fine that you think it worth saving?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“(and what are we all but information in peculiar packaging?)”
― Iain Pears, Arcadia