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“I’ve read so many stories online about how tragedy brings people together, how hard times encourage bravery and sacrifice, how a crisis can turn ordinary folks into heroes. But what about the opposite, when something horrible happens and it strips us bare, exposing weaknesses we didn’t even know we had. What about when tragedy makes people worse?”
― Paula Stokes, This is How it Happened

“Monsters don’t get happy endings.”
― Paula Stokes, Ferocious

“Do it double, because some can't do it at all.”
― Clara Kensie, Aftermath

“Create desire. After all, desire needed no explanation. The heart wants what it wants, most people would say. But what makes the heart want in the first place? No one ever asked that question.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“Some people just want to be part of the story, even if it’s a story that’s completely fabricated.”
― Paula Stokes, This is How it Happened

“There is something intoxicating about ending a life, about wiping bad people off the face of the earth. But it’s also a dark and deadly pull. After all, who am I to decide who lives or dies?”
― Paula Stokes, Ferocious

“You can’t explain love with experiments and MRIs. I don’t care what your research says. Some things are bigger than science.”
― Paula Stokes, The Key to Everything

“Guilt is basically one of my superpowers. It’s been programmed into me from the moment I was old enough to know what it was.”
― Paula Stokes, Hidden Pieces

“Books can alter one’s whole life. Involve you in a way that sometimes one can’t tell reality from fantasy.”
― Liliana Shelbrook, Lantern in the Mist