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“Don’t you know? Love is the purest form of destruction there is.”
― Amber V. Nicole, The Book of Azrael

“How do you control a population? You keep the people poor and uneducated. Tell them the same lie for centuries, and tie that lie to religion. Those people will believe you even when the truth is dancing naked in front of them. Because to believe otherwise would mean their entire world has always been a lie. And that realization is too difficult for most people to take.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“They want us to feel small, Eleanor. They want us to be quiet, be predictable, be unimportant, behave. Then they make us think we deserve it. But I think they’re just terrified we’ll stop listening to them and start listening to each other. And do you know why they’re so scared of women like us?”
― Penn Cole, Glow of the Everflame

“Don’t you dare mistake compassion for lack of courage,” he growled. “Anyone can slaughter their enemies. Hate is easy—it’s mercy that requires the greater strength. I’ll be damned if I let you believe that beautiful heart of yours is a weakness. Trust your instincts, my Queen—above all else, trust yourself.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“I’m not out here telling people’s secrets. I just enjoy hearing about drama! Sue me!”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“I wanted to move somewhere new,” she said, her voice wobbling. “I wanted to meet new people. Experience new cultures. Pick the place in the world I wanted to call home instead of the one predestined for me.”
― Ali K. Mulford, She's a Keeper

“Fantastical plots and unusual characters had always been my escape. Reality is brutal. Fiction offers a lens through which to understand others, catharsis.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“On principle, I didn’t trust anyone who didn’t like cats, so they’d never be around to judge me anyway.”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“Give me a little credit,” he scoffs. “Whatever else I may be, I was never a man who had to tear a woman down to shine bright beside her. If you’re not as good as me, then you’re no good at all. And when I saw you, Mara … I thought, this girl is really fucking good. I don’t want to hold you down, chop you down, diminish you in any way. I already know I found something special. Now it’s time for everyone else to see it.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“And so, in the absence of any abiding religious convictions, this was the one blind faith I had: that love was a physical force, and it was never wasted. Once it was called out into the universe, it would echo back to us forever.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“There were women—I’d seen them—who were lit from within, and when they became wives that light dampened. I did not know if it was their husbands that doused their flame, or if they themselves curled up around it, their very souls trying to protect it from extinguishing. Regardless, I had been prepared to watch myself dim. But Evander’s touch lit sparks inside me, and somehow, he coaxed the light within to burn brighter, to burn steadily.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“Someday,” she whispered, as her fingers played through my damp hair, “you will have a full life. A home, if you want one. And you’ll see more than these stones and mountains and sky. And I’ll be with you when you first touch the sea. You’ll feel sand between your toes, and salt water on your tongue, and you will feel more joy than you can fathom. I promise.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“Yes, the guy was Henry Cavill’s doppelgänger, but I wasn’t in the market for someone who I could barely get within ten feet of without rolling my eyes.”
― Stephanie Archer, That Kind of Guy

“Death had never looked so beautiful until it was delivered by your hands.”
― Tigest Girma, Eternal Ruin