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“You’ve wasted far too much of your life looking for answers in the world around you when you’ve had them within you all along. Nothing around you can tell you what you are, min asteren. Only you can make that choice,” he said.”
― Harper L. Woods, What Lurks Between the Fates

“Every time we face our fears, we grow a little bit.”
― Ellen Meister, Divorce Towers

“Iron is made stronger in the hottest part of the fire, Seth. You didn't break me, you forged me.”
― Caroline Peckham

“We were friends. The kind who met up and buried secrets in the depths of the woods in the middle of the night and never told another soul about them. The kind who trusted in each other’s motivations and forgave their worst behaviours no matter what.”
― Caroline Peckham, Ruthless Fae

“go alph-uck yourself,”
― Caroline Peckham, Ruthless Fae

“I wasn’t fragile, I was a weapon forged in fire.”
― Caroline Peckham, Shadow Princess

“I find that keeping your head up and your heart open is the best way to handle much of what life throws at you.”
― Tricia O'Malley, Song of the Fae

“Power is pain, and pain is power. Everything must be in balance.”
― Lyra Selene, A Feather So Black

“Let him see the weakness he expects of you. Then you may strike at him when he least expects, and he will never see you coming.”
― Lyra Selene, A Feather So Black

“Even loving parents make tools of their children.”
― Lyra Selene, A Feather So Black

“And whether we like it or not, things are always changing. Change is how we know we’re alive. That doesn’t mean it does not hurt to leave parts of ourselves behind. Parts of ourselves we can never get back.”
― Lyra Selene, A Crown So Silver

“growth is hard. Change is hard. But getting stuck in the past will rob you of a future every time.”
― Beth Merlin, Life Derailed

“It’s never easy to realize that the people who are supposed to protect us are the ones who can create the deepest scars.”
― Kaylie Smith, Enchantra

“But is it not the most unsuspecting people who do the most extraordinary things?”
― Olivia Rose Darling, Fear the Flames

“Never let anyone make you feel guilty for letting yourself choose how you want to live your life”—”
― Olivia Rose Darling, Fear the Flames

“chair.When wielded properly, words have the power to cut someone down with more pain and precision than any sword.”
― Olivia Rose Darling, Fear the Flames

“saved myself. I fought every day, through every panic attack, through every nightmare, and through every person who tried to kill me because I realized I was worth fighting for.”
― Olivia Rose Darling, Fear the Flames

“When I was younger, I barely felt anything. I didn’t even feel human. I had to tell myself to present an emotion so people didn’t worry about me, and I just pretended I was fine so nobody would look too deeply and realize how much pain I was in.”
― Olivia Rose Darling, Fear the Flames

“That little girl survived so she could become the woman I am today. I am more than the memories and past that plague me.”
― Olivia Rose Darling, 𝐌𝐨à𝐧𝐚 JUMBO Coloring Book: (2022 Edition), Deluxe 𝐌𝐨à𝐧𝐚 Coloring Book For Kids Ages 4-8, Ages 8-12,

“The only time a person can truly be brave is when they remain standing as fear tries to cut them down.”
― Olivia Rose Darling, Fear the Flames

“Worrying is expensive. It costs you the one thing you can’t get back. Time.”
― Geneva Lee, Filthy Rich Fae

“Seeing herself as unimportant was safe. Unimportance was safe, being a disappointment was safe. There were no expectations, no standards, no more pedestals to fall from.”
― Jaysea Lynn, For Whom the Belle Tolls

“The unconditional love she’d been told to expect had had some conditions after all.”
― Jaysea Lynn, For Whom the Belle Tolls

“Grief isn’t linear. There’s no formula to it, and sometimes you feel guilty for feeling or not feeling a certain way. That’s okay.”
― Jaysea Lynn, For Whom the Belle Tolls

“We all have terrible thoughts, yes? Sometimes they leap into our minds out of nowhere, other times they creep out of crevices in ourselves we were unaware of or tried to forget. This is normal. It is a condition of life, of being, that our minds shock us sometimes. But this is where we define ourselves: we are either horrified or confused or disgusted by these thoughts and work to change them, or we let them rule us.”
― Jaysea Lynn, For Whom the Belle Tolls

“How naïve we are when we’re young. How easily we trust that the sun will keep rising and setting, warming our days. And what a terrible blow it is to discover it isn’t the sun that makes things bright, but the people who love us, so that when they’re gone, everything is plunged into darkness.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“But you can only die so many times before all of your hope is stolen away.”
― K.M. Moronova, Once Upon a Demon's Heart

“I hate that I cry when I’m pissed off, and I can’t hurt the asshole causing it.”
― K.M. Moronova, Once Upon a Demon's Heart

“We so often forget that just because a group is labelled good or evil, it doesn’t mean every individual within it is the same. There is darkness in the good, and goodness in the bad.”
― J. F. Johns, A Kingdom of Sand and Ice

“I suppose anger is easy,” I replied with a defeated sort of sigh. “For me at least. Easier than talking about my other feelings.”
― Madeleine Eliot, To Wear a Demon Crown