Zuby

“Alabaster was never mad; he’s just learned so much that would have driven a lesser soul to gibbering, that sometimes it shows. Letting out some of that accumulated horror by occasionally sounding like a frothing maniac is how he copes. It’s also how he warns you, you know now, that he’s about to destroy some additional measure of your naivete. Nothing is ever as simple as you want it to be.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

“Her heart breaks in this moment. Another small, quiet tragedy, amid so many others.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

“Complaining about nothing doesn't seem like coping to you, but okay.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

“Besides, like a man who knows he is dying, he felt a need to be equally tender to all.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea / Temple of the Golden Pavilion / Confessions of a Mask