Tiny Elf Arcanist

“In short, Tress was a normal teenage girl. She knew this because the other girls often mentioned how they weren’t like “everyone else,” and after a while Tress figured that the group “everyone else” must include only her. The other girls were obviously right, as they all knew how to be unique—they were so good at it, in fact, that they did it together.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Do you think it’s too feminine to like flowers?” I ask Tristan, for no real reason. “On the contrary,” he replies. “Being able to recognize the true beauty of things is the mark of a real man.”
― Jeanne Roland, Journeys

“The past is boring anyway. We always pretend the ideals and culture of the past have aged like wine, but in truth, the ideas of the past tend to age more like biscuits. They simply get stale.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“She wasn’t even certain she was Tress anymore, or if she’d become someone else. You could say, in other words, that her state at the moment was distress”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea