Daisy

“Just another kid. Just like me. It's laughable and heartbreaking, and it makes me ache for the end of this time, this age of children inheriting wars. 'Could we just stop?' I want to ask. 'Could you want to act your age and unmake this brutality within you? Could you know we are too young to feel so cruel'?”
― Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers

“But you would do it for me, For everyone else. You do not get to be alone in that, Eris; you do not get to save people without them doing same for you.”
― Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers

“There was so much I should have told you. I just didn't have time. I didn't know. I didn't know I'd have to say: A sword doesn't hold an edge on its own, you sack of Ninth House garbage. I didn't know I'd have to say, if you dip a sword into melty bone, the metal gets more pitted than an iron mine, you cross-patched necromantic shit.

I think the main thing I should have said was, You sawed open your skull rather than be beholden to someone. You turned your brain into soup to escape anything less than 100 percent freedom. You put me in a box and buried me rather than give up your own goddamned agenda.

Harrowhark, I gave you my whole life and you didn't even want it.

Actually, scratch that, the main thing I should have said was, SQUATS ARE A START, OR A COUPLE OF STAR JUMPS, THEY'RE NOT DIFFICULT.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“You do not get to be alone with that, Eris; you do not get to save people without them doing the same for you.' Her gaze burns into mine; I try to look away, and her hand close against my jaw, forcing me still under the soft weight of her fingertips, and then she whispers, with a quiet, jagged kind of ache, 'You do not get to love someone and think they won't feel it.”
― Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers