"All your dust turns holy. What's rotten in you burns and burns." -Susannah Nevison (Reyes left for Blackwatch, and an angel followed. Overwatch AU)

"Just like our eyes, our hearts have a way of adjusting to the dark." -Adam Stanley (Link was asleep for seven years. Hyrule was not. Ocarina of Time AU.)

"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies." -Holly Black (In a world where Overwatch's fall was orchestrated like some terrible symphony, a doctor and soldier with tattered pride and bruised morale sift through the wreckage to find the truth. Post-canon.)

"We all play with fire. It just depends if it's carefully enough to keep warm, or carelessly enough to get burned." -Christopher Tubb (Sombra is playing a dangerous game, and Widowmaker knows how it ends. Spiders aren't afraid of shadows. Post-Infiltration Short.)

"Sometimes I forget that unsaid sentences do not mean unfelt emotions." -Tyler Knott Gregson

"Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me." -Audre Lorde (McCree didn't think it was possible to feel this out of place in a room. Maybe he should have left the hat at home. Pre-canon.)

"Do you think it's possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?" -Tyler Knott Gregson (They gravitate towards each other—two beings capable of incredible compassion—like their souls are old friends.)

"Once I saw an x-ray of a heart and I was alarmed by its smallness, its translucence. A thing we ask entirely too much of." -Laura van den Berg (She is a mother. A solider. A stone-cold sharpshooter. But she is not perfect, no matter how many promises she makes.)

"I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole." -C.G. Jung (Where is it written that angels must be good? Angels are agents of god, and god is a jealous, wrathful sort of fellow.)

"We're all cynics and romantics, sometimes simultaneously." -Nick Hornby (Neither of them have a clue what they're doing but that's not exactly stopping them.)

"It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice." -Joseph Conrad (Ruby is Remnant's last Huntress. Weiss is on the run for Qrow's murder. Blake is trying to take the law into her own hands. Yang is a Captain in the Atlesian Army. This is the new Team RWBY.)

"There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death." -Ariana Huffington (Some diseases have no cures. Some questions have no answers. Some realizations come too late. Pre-canon.)

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." -William Shakespeare (She stands in the operating room, flanked on all sides by death, her table occupied by a thing teetering between man and corpse.)

"I'm afraid if I listen to my heart once, I'll never figure out how to ignore it again." -Colleen Hoover (They were like parallel lines: always close, but never touching.)

"A person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair." -Haruki Murakami (They meet somewhere in between an angel's failure and Death's grudge. Two strangers who know too much about each other.)

"The day will be what you make it, so rise like the sun, and burn." -William C. Hannan (It starts with the pretentious boy in the goggles and ends with a knife fight in Sanctum's lunchroom. Sun's never been good at staying out of trouble.)

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." -Louisa May Alcott

"To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred." -Pierre Corneille

"A single rose can be my garden. A single friend, my world." -Leo Buscaglia

"She wore her scars as her best attire. A stunning dress made of hellfire." -Daniel Saint (Perhaps Gray hadn't been completely wrong about the sting of invisible scars. Post-Avatar Arc.)

"Nothing burns like the cold." George R. R. Martin

"You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it." -JK Rowling

"Be the love you never received." -Rune Cazuli

"Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in one's eyes." -José Saramago (In which Sting and Yukino try to keep Natsu and Lucy from growing apart. End of Tartaros arc.)

"And I am trying to convince my shadow that I'm someone worth following." -Rudy Francisco

"I am trying to remember you and let you go at the same time." -Nayyirah Waheed

"You will not always be strong, but you can always be brave." -Beau Taplin

"Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light." -Dylan Thomas

"She is delightfully chaotic; a beautiful mess. Loving her is a splendid adventure." -Steve Maraboli

"I think hell is something you carry around with you, not someplace you go." -Neil Gaiman

"Hearts are wild creatures. That's why our ribs are cages." -Elalusz

"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger." -Buddha

"All confrontation is based in deception." -Paul Watson

"Man dies of cold, not of darkness." -Miguel de Unamuno

"She was like the moon—part of her was always hidden away." -Dia Reeves

"What matters most is how you walk through the fire." -Charles Bukowski

"My drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire." -William Shakespeare

"Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you." -Ovid