Soothing Rays

“If you can convince yourself it's true, you can convince anyone.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Our bodies are not ornaments, they are instruments.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“For the empire is huge. Complex. Often unwieldy and slow. And in many places, weak. A massive colossus, stretching out across the cantons, one in whose shadow we all live...and yet it is prone to wounds, infections, fevers, and ill humors. But its strangest feature is that the more its citizens feel it is broken, the more broken it actually becomes.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup