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“A person with a knife was one thing. A person with a knife and a cause could topple kingdoms.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Drowned Woods

“She had never been brave - but she'd always been angry. It would have to be enough.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Drowned Woods

“She could not slay her own fears. But as for the men who’d made her afraid—they could bleed.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Drowned Woods

“Dreams often revealed one’s greatest vulnerability; dreams were doors that led into hearts and minds and souls and secrets.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“Perhaps love was not something easily forgotten, even when it had burned down to ashes.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“One does not realize how powerful a dream is, in the sleeping world as well as the waking one, until it has been stolen from them.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“Opposites are not always in opposition; the day and night are equals. One isn’t good and the other bad. But one does illuminate things while the other obscures, and that has to mean something too, I think.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King

“This body of mine is not big enough to contain the scale of emotion coursing through me. How could I feel a rage like this, and not be able to tear the sky open and scorch the earth?”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“There are other ways to fight for someone, Mademoiselle, than merely picking up a sword.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“Who needs coffee when you have the icy shock of mortal terror?”
― Ivelisse Housman, Unseelie

“Beauty exists everywhere in the world. Love resides in all of us. That’s the point. I only…I only want to deepen that. Show that there can be—that there should be—substance in it all. Of course a bride on her wedding day is beautiful, but that radiance doesn’t diminish in old age, when she’s too tired to keep up with whatever ridiculous fashions the shops and salons put out. I know Arina smiles upon an old couple walking down the road together, hand in hand, firm in their commitment to one another. There is love in caring for the sick, the weak, the ugly. A wilting flower holds just as much splendor as one on the cusp of opening. People are so quick to idolize the fresh and the new. They fetishize it.” He rubbed at his forehead, his eyes bright with fervor. “Why should we celebrate one without the other?”
― Erin A. Craig, House of Roots and Ruin

“Beauty exists everywhere in the world. Love resides in all of us. That's the point. I only...I only want to deepen that. Show that there can be - that there should be - substance in it all. Of course a bride on her wedding day is beautiful, but that radiance doesn't diminish in old age, when she's too tired to keep up with whatever ridiculous fashions the shops and salons put out. I know Arina smiles upon an old couple walking down the road together, hand in hand, firm in their commitment to one another. A wilting flower holds just as much splendor as one on the cusp of opening. People are so quick to idolize the fresh and the new. They fetishize it." He rubbed at his forehead, his eyes bright with fervor. "Why should we celebrate one without the other?”
― Erin A. Craig, House of Roots and Ruin

“She talked like a woman who knew more books than people.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“What is coincidence if not a subtle form of magic?”
― Rachel Griffin, Wild Is the Witch

“I am the cosmos and energy and matter of the universe held perfectly together with skin and bone.”
― Rachel Griffin, Wild Is the Witch