Life Quote by Renee Ahdieh

“Hattori Mariko was not just any girl. She was more.”

— Renee Ahdieh

“She’d fought off her assailant. And in doing so, she’d displayed one of the seven virtues of bushidō: Courage. The way of the warrior.…

— Renee Ahdieh

“!Cabron!" [Mariposa] stomped her foot. "Hijo de puta." Hard to believe that she was two centuries old and not the young girl she looked…

— Patricia Briggs

“How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?”

— Nadia Scrieva

“And what was to become of what he had taken from her? He had dashed her heart to the ground and danced on it…

— V.S. Carnes

“She remembered Chiyo telling her that finding one's match was like finding one's other half. Mariko had never understood the notion. She was not…

— Renee Ahdieh

“His chest expanded with a rising sense of pride for the young woman who had gone unappreciated by her own people. The Oclanders would…

— Vivienne Savage

“It was hope that stood beside him, hidden and protected these years in this city, and in the years before it, spirited across the…

— Sarah J. Maas

“It amazed me. Maria had been brought up in this place, and yet she had shone like a kingfisher flickering across the water. Perhaps…

— Alex Reeve

“Girls were happy to be married. Olga had glowed when her husband put a jewel on her finger and took her away. Maybe Vasya…

— Katherine Arden

“She couldn't be the prince, and she'd never be a princess, and she didn't want to be a woodcutter, so she'd be the witch…

— Terry Pratchett

“Her heavy breathing echoed off the thick walls, her body frozen in shock, but when Marik reappeared in the mouth of the cave, she…

— Kiersten Fay