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“Sometimes the ones we love are who they are, and everyone around them can only do what they can.”
― Sadie Sterling, Wings of Starless Night

“Every time I see them, it reminds me that everything continues—that I continue. Through the worst parts of my life, I have still woken up in the morning, put one foot in front of the other, and walked out of my bedroom door. And I am proud of that, if nothing else. I am proud of continuing.”
― Sadie Sterling, Wings of Starless Night

“Cloaked in blood-red light and shadows, he looked like he could be a god himself—one of hostility and retribution. A deity fae would only pray to in fear.”
― Sadie Sterling, Wings of Starless Night

“He was my compulsion. Everything I wanted. Everything I could never admit to wanting.”
― Sadie Sterling, Wings of Starless Night

“Be careful, Allina," he rasped, as his thumb traced my bottom lip, "or I will give you everything.”
― Sadie Sterling, Wings of Starless Night

“Do not hide. Do not cower.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“No part of you is less than perfect to me. No curve or freckle or tangle. There is nothing that you can show me that will leave me feeling less than obsessed with you.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“I would never concede. I would fight until my final breath and then rage from the Underworld where I knew my blackened soul belonged.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“That was the problem with finding something you loved. Suddenly, the things that you did out of obligation and duty seemed far less important.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“As a particularly anger-driven being, I liked the solace a fellow furious little thing could bring me.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“Those who gain from an oppressive system care not for those who will suffer beneath it.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“I would sooner forget my own name than the way you looked in that dress.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“Horrifying—that's what being loved was. Because I had never amounted to what those around me thought I would. Every step along the way, I stumbled and fell, always clawing up a pedestal I would never reach the top of.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“Whatever you need, Ash, I will give it to you. I will steal the stars from the sky and hang them on your neck. I will melt every spec of gold in The Capital and forge something new. I will battle entire armies and lay their swords at your feet. I will do anything for you, if you only let me.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“If I were so small, the world that rests upon my shoulders would have crushed me long ago.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“Choose what you say carefully, Ash, because there is not antidote for the poison of a few words. They often kill faster than a blade.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“We worshipped heroes as if their inability to do what was hard made them better than those deemed villains for not apologizing when they moved mountains to find their version of a happy ending.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“It is hard to explain what it feels like when someone who hurts you so badly shows you affection. It is like winning a race you were forced to run, the success of it euphoric in a way that blinds you with its brightness, preventing you from seeing the tragedy in your worn shoes and stuttering heart and teary eyes.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“I was music. I was sorrow. I was death. Perhaps I was vengeance too.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“Sometimes saving the world requires the villain, not the hero. But being the villain does not mean you are evil, it just means someone else is telling the story.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“How odd, to be loved as much as you love. To find your equal and know that they see you as such. It was a beautiful and terrifying thing, discovering the one who made your soul complete.”
― Brea Lamb, Of Realms and Chaos

“You've become that breath of fresh air that comes at nightfall and makes everything easier, and I don't know if I'll ever be able to live without it.”
― Iren Adams, The Broken Sands

“He had said once that I was like a breath of fresh air to him, but he doesn't know he has stolen every single one of mine.”
― Iren Adams, The Broken Sands

“You may think me a monster, but remember, Zerryn, that I protect my family, always. And if you are so lucky as to be called mine, there is nothing I won't do to keep you safe.”
― F.M. Aden, The Bride of Death

“You are not nothing," he whispered. "It is I who come to you crawling, a rabid dog hungry for your attention. An unworthy peasant grabbing at your hem. It is you who refuses me always. You who remain unswayed by my power and beauty and might. You who insults and soothes me. You are the one in power, and you have brought me to my knees.”
― F.M. Aden, The Bride of Death

“He kissed her, depraved and hungry, brushing harsh kisses to her neck, teeth digging hard enough to bruise, as if he sought to mark her with his touch. As if he intended to bury himself in her skin and make a home of her bones.”
― F.M. Aden, The Bride of Death

“Rarely were women hailed as heroes or were ballads sung for them. Rarely were they written of in epics. Nobody ever looked at the wives who raised families while men fought wars. Nobody ever spoke of the women who took up the jobs of men while they marched into battle. Nobody ever spoke of the women who donned the dress of their brothers and became national heroes.”
― F.M. Aden, The Bride of Death

“...and tell me if you see me celebrating. Look at me and tell me if I look whole. I have never experienced a loss that had the potential to unravel me. I have never felt a love so consuming it threatened to undo me. You are my every thought. You are my reason for existing. I cannot fathom a life without you. And I never want to be apart from you again. I would forsake my throne, the Underworld and all my dark creations if it mean that you'd be mine. There is no price that I would not pay to be with you.”
― F.M. Aden, The Bride of Death

“Fear cannot breed where there is action.”
― Peter S. Beagle, I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

“My mother, sometimes she says that everybody in the world is a donkey with the heart of a lion. Everybody. Only most people don’t ever discover it—they don’t have to, they get along all right just being donkeys. But it’s there, always, if you really need it. If you really want to find it. If you look for it.”
― Peter S. Beagle, I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons