Tova

“Yiran wrinkled his nose. “Absolutely no on the ice cream. I don’t want to eat toothpaste.” “Mint-chocolate ice cream does not taste like toothpaste,” Rui protested. “We can agree to disagree. A flavor of ice cream shouldn’t be a friendship breaker,” he said solemnly, but his eyes were crinkling.”
― June C.L. Tan, Darker by Four

“And there’s also the unspoken obligation of proving their patron deity’s superiority over all the other gods. Seokga’s shamans have been specifically instructed to seek out Hwanin’s shamans and use their shape-shifting magic (generously bestowed upon them by Seokga himself) to change into birds and shit all over their snobby heads.”
― Sophie Kim, The God and the Gwisin

“We’re only trying to survive, like all other living organisms. What makes it wrong? Aren’t you doing the same? Aren’t you training to survive? It’s the law of nature—eat or be eaten.”
― June C.L. Tan, Darker by Four

“The mortal realm of Iseung disgusts him, but there is one feature—and, mind you, one feature only—that he finds he does not loathe with the entire expanse of his bitter soul. Coffee.”
― Sophie Kim, The God and the Gumiho