Kariane (bookish.introvert_)

“You’ll be a weapon to whoever owns you.” “I’m just a girl,” Enne countered. “And no one owns me.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“Sometimes we're not who we want to be because we're supposed to be something else.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Are you a pearl, or are you a bullet?”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades