Random Van

“I read somewhere,” says my plague doctor, “that there is power to your kind’s names, isn’t there? Or was it in your voices? I can’t remember. Not right now. But there was a reason your husband sliced out your tongue, was there not? He was afraid, one way or another, of the voice that beats in your lungs, your hurricane scream. You frightened him. How men fear things that can’t be quieted.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“Not all scars we earn are skin-deep, Freya Born-in-Fire. There is no less honor in them.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood

“Sometimes love is what you need to break a curse, at least in the stories.”
― Skye McKenna, Seawitch

“I will burn, I will bleed, I will banish myself from existence for it.”
― Katharine J. Adams, Tonight, I Burn