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“Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“I have tried to dismantle you, Gideon Nav! The Ninth House poisoned you, we trod you underfoot—I took you to this killing field as my slave—you refuse to die, and you pity me! Strike me down. You’ve won. I’ve lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“You will never remember the great if you do not remember the small.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“Polyamorous or monogamous, your love should be a thing that brings something to you.
It's true that giving can be a part of love. But, contrary to popular belief, love should never take from you, Freddy.”
― Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

“I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me. I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“There's never honor where there's power.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood

“The world isn't fair -- but you can want it to be. That's a kind of hunger, too.”
― N.K. Jemisin, Far Sector

“If you loved her as much as you think you did, you would have tried. If she loved you as much as she said, she wouldn't have put you in the position to have to. Sometimes, things just aren't meant to be.”
― Poppy Woods, Witching Moon

“[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security and wealth.”
― Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

“The history of Europe before the Conquest is sufficient proof that the Europeans did not have to cross the oceans to find the will to exterminate those standing in their way.”
― Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

“Just as the justice goddess is blind, the god of death is without ears, and cannot be begged or reasoned with.”
― Ray Wood, In the Sight of Akresa

“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions