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“Once, at Ogawa Castle, Miuko had thought him lonely; but now, seeing him encircled by such unrepentant destruction, she understood that he could never be lonely, because he did not desire company. No, what he desired was subjugation, and that meant he would always be alone, above all others.”
― Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night

“I'm afraid of the forest," I blurt out, shame washing over me. How weak and human I must appear to him. When Namgi doesn't respond, I brush by him, trudging forward. I've only walked a few paces when he slips his arm into mine. "I'm afraid of a lot of things," he say, "but not the darkness. I can see in the dark, you know. That must be why. Really, I don't need this torch, but you do, so I'll hold it for you. sometimes I can be thoughtless. And I like to tease. But you can depend upon me.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“He was meandering along one of the paths, watching the fire crackle around him as if it were an opera—stirring, magnificent—and he, its only patron.”
― Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night

“Lifting her hand in the air, she flings the paper boat into the fire. "No!" I scream, lunging forward. My hand rips through the flames. A terrible sound comes from my throut, an agonized cry that has less to do with my burning hand and more to do with my breaking heart. Shin grabs me from behind, pulling me back. He drags me from the room the sound of the goddess's laughter ringing loudly in my ears.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“She could not help but think of her mother and how much she would have loved it, how she would have devoured every sight, every souund, every phantasmagoric scent wafting up from the volcanic fissures and meadows of drunken, chittering flowers.”
― Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night

“No matter how careful I am, eventually I'll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal. I hate that most of all.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“He's supposed to look regal. I helped choose the clothes, helped make him this way, and yet the effect is not lost on me.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“She's wearing a flannel, unbuttoned, over a T-shirt. I zoom in so I can read it: IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND, YOU WOULDN'T BE SMILING. I run my fingers across the screen, laughing at the shirt and fighting back tears at the same time.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

“I drag my feet on my way to you.
Way over there.
Too far away.
Skin. Thin, practically translucent.
Eyes. Sunken. Skeletal. Bruised
Tubes. Colorless and everywhere.
You. Not you.
Gone. Not gone.
Not yet.
Hand. Warm. Slack.
But still familiar.
So familiar.
I shouldn't have dragged my feet.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

“But for one night, he's the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have—for better or worse—become what I am.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“He laughs as though it's the question of a small child. If you could reach your hand up far enough, could you pluck the moon from the sky? "I wouldn't play the game if I couldn't win”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Cocking back his arm, he backhands me into the snow. "You were always good," he says, looking down at me. "Just never good enough.”
― holly black

“I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“She wants to fight monsters, and she wants him for a lover, the same boy she fantasized about murdering. She likes nothing easy or safe or sure.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“I kept him at arm's length because at least there he wouldn't be able to see how broken I was. I could keep lying.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“But mostly because he was very handsome, and I was very much attracted to him, and that was the kind of surprise that I did not see coming.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip