Storm

“Now, I have heard it all," murmured Balthazar, looking from Vigga, back to Brother Diaz with an expression almost of wonder. "How can I be both disappointed, and impressed, and with both of you at once?”
― Joe Abercrombie

“Two hours into the third session of our fourth cabinet meeting on the border dispute with the co-operative kingdom of Dahomey, my colleagues finally agree that we need to seek the dream-counsel of our electric mother.”
― Wole Talabi, A Dream of Electric Mothers

“Bright Blue Water seemed to surround us, absolving us. And if I felt any sorrow, it was only for the years we had wasted in hating each. The great things we might have done, the adventures we could have had. We might have been anything, and gone anywhere. For in that moment it seemed we were both Dancers, both Pirates, both Duchesses and Knights. Clara had forgiven me, and I had forgiven her. And so at last we were together, both of us at the end, just as we were at the beginning. Free of the Queen's terrible country, As though we had never been divided. As though we'd passed through all of it, this wild theatrical of life and somehow come out whole on the other side. Silence set around us, soft and welcoming as a velvet curtain, and then all was still.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“I'm not your wife. I am your maid, your cook, someone you sleep with when you feel like it. I've been doing all the giving, everyone else is doing all the taking, including your sorry brothers and Monique's trifling ass. I have nothing else to give.”
― Naleighna Kai, Sugar Ain't So Sweet