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“But magic was not always so linear. It was born from odium. From love. From revenge.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“The sisters have all found bodies.” The words seem pulled from my throat. The quiet settles between each of my ribs, it expands my lungs, it reminds me of what’s to come. “They’ve all returned.” I close my eyes, focusing on the silence. It’s the fastest it’s ever happened before. Now the drowning will begin.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“I might love him. And it has tilted my universe off center, the frayed edges of my life starting to unravel. Loving someone is dangerous. It gives you something to lose.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“I once read a poem about love being fragile, as thin as glass and easily broken.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“There are legends of mermaids who fall in love with sailors, their devotion granting them a human form. I read about the Irish tales of selkies shedding their sealskins, marrying a human man, and staying on land forever.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“I once read a poem about love being fragile, as thin as glass and easily broken.

But that is not the kind of love that survives in a place like this. It must be hardy and enduring. It must have grit.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“We wait for death. We hold our breath. We know it's coming, and still we flinch when it claws at our throats and pulls us under.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“Love is an enchantress—devious and wild. It sneaks up behind you, soft and gentle and quiet, just before it slits your throat.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“Stories have power," she says. "So long as you belive them.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Every time I get nervous or scared, I remind myself that every good story needs twists and turns. Every heroine needs an adventure.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Sometimes help is a place and sometimes it’s a person, and sometimes it’s a bit of both.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“One foot in winter and one in spring.
One foot with the living and one with the dead.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Embrace your strange, dear daughter. Where’s the fun in being normal?”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“We’re not gonna throw away the past as if it meant nothing. See? That’s what happens to whole neighborhoods. We built something, it was messy, but we’re not gonna throw it away.”
― Ibi Zoboi, Pride

“For the entirety of human history, weak men have been afraid of powerful women.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Why shouldn't women get to craft the lives they wanted? Messy, complicated, vibrant lives full of adventure?”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns