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“Parksy, you’re not just my first thought, you’re willfully my second one and my third one and every other thereafter, because when I am dead”–grimace over at her for saying the D-word–“Sorry. But when I am, that’s what they’ll say about me. That I loved you. That I still love you. That even if I die, when I die, and I’m old and I’m ready and god willing you’ve died first because otherwise–up front,” I turn to our friends and family. “–sorry to everyone.” I turn back to her. “If I die, when I die, it will echo through space and through time, and it’ll brush up against the edge of this universe and press into the next one that I loved you more than anything.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark

“She’s never not going to be sad,” Gibsie replied, sniffling again. “Trust me, that kind of sadness never goes away. The world just stops seeing it.”
― Chloe Walsh, Releasing 10

“You were right. I’m so sorry. We should have listened to you.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“And of course you agreed,” Stroud said, withdrawing her hand. “Because you thought they’d accept what you are if you only reduced yourself enough.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“What kind of ring is that?” she asked.
He looked down. “This?” he asked, as if there were any other rings she could have been referring to. He turned his hand. “Just and old piece.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Helena stopped in her tracks. “You sound as enslaved as I am.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Why don’t you die?.” There was no point in being coy. She wanted to kill him; they both knew it.
Blood was still flowing down the hilt of the knife, dripping scarlet across the white marble floor, spattering across the ouroboros mosaic.
His lips curved into an insincere smile. “Prior commitments, I’m afraid.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Things that seem too good to be true usually have a price you don’t know about until it’s too late.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Ferron stared at her, his mouth twisting. “Are you wanting a confession? Shall I tell you everything I’ve done?”
She stared into his mocking eyes. “Do you want to?”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Don’t die Marino, I might miss you.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“The High Necromancer will do whatever it takes to win. The method doesn’t matter. He wants Paladia, ideally with the city intact, but if he can’t get it, he’ll raze it instead. You’re fighting someone whose only objection to genocide is the waste of potential resources. Even a genocide is acceptable if it leaves him with the materials for more necrothralls. And you’re trying to win by—what? Waiting for Sol’s intervention? Is there any plan that doesn’t hinge on the inherent superiority of goodness?”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“If Helena had come out and said that surgery was a success and Lila was already getting out of bed, they’d all be off to the perihelion to offer Sol flames of thanksgiving. But bad news was always the hospital’s fault.
How nice it must be, to be a god.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“You are so much more that what the war has done to you”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“You shouldn’t have to spend the rest of your life trapped by all the promises that people forced you to make.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“I live among idealists, but all I see are bodies. I’d like the opinion of someone who doesn’t believe that optimism somehow improves the odds.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Pain and mutilation.
Of course the chimaeras were savage. How could anything endure so much hurt and not learn only to bite?”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“She couldn't fix herself anymore, and no one else seemed inclined to even notice she was breaking.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Found you,” said Ilya.
“You were looking for me?”
“Of course not”
― Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry

“Ilya opened Instagram and started typing a new private message to ShaneHollanderHockeyPlayer.

Shane
You are the best thing in my life.
I love you. Always. Maybe from the first time I saw you.
I am thinking only about you right now. A million memories. Thank you for those.
Whatever happens, I am with you. Safe in your heart. I believe it.

He did. Ilya only had vague ideas of the afterlife and any gods who may be waiting there, but he believed his soul would stay with Shane, however it could. He believed the people you loved stayed with you until it was your time to go. He often felt his mother with him, and he knew he’d do the same for Shane.”
― Rachel Reid, The Long Game

“I mean, nine seasons of coming home from road trips to no one. Of summers with no boyfriend to travel with, and no family to visit. Nine seasons of not having a date to team functions, or to the NHL Awards. Of not having someone I love in the crowd at games. It was weighting on me.”
“...”
“I’ll greet you at home after every road trip. I’ll be in the crowd at as many games as I can get to. I’ll be your date for anything you want to bring me to.”
― Rachel Reid, Game Changer

“Follow me?” Ilya smiled.
“Anywhere.”
― Rachel Reid, The Long Game