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“I vow to be the roots that ground you, the branches that help you reach for your dreams, and the shelter that forever keeps you safe. I will love you in every life.”
― Stacia Stark, A Queen This Fierce and Deadly

“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

“I’ve gone my whole life feeling like I’m holding my breath. Like my lungs are burning. Like I’m desperately fighting for each gasp of air. But when you’re around, I can…breathe. And I’m furious at you, because when that ends…when we’re forced apart, I don’t know how I’ll take a full breath without you.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“Men. So utterly predictable with their insistence on diminishing women to girls in an attempt to belittle us.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“Your heart doesn’t stop beating when you lose someone you love. The world doesn’t end. It just feels like it does.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Even if the fates hadn’t tied us together, I would have chosen her every day for the rest of my life.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“It’s much easier to give advice about other people’s lives than it is to navigate your own.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“He stared down at me like he would burn the world for me. What he didn’t seem to understand was that I would do the same for him.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“It was ironic, really—the experiences that came the closest to breaking you were the same experiences that built you into someone new. Surviving one experience meant you were more likely to survive the next.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Being alive is not the same as living. I hope someday you'll have a chance to realise the difference.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Gideon was her perfect rival; a deadly enemy to outwit. Without him, Rune could only be half of her full potential. It was why, deep down, she wanted him to come for her. She ached for the challenge of him. She needed to finish what lay unfinished between them.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“His gentleness snuck past her defenses, unlocking the deadbolts inside her. Letting the enemy in.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“But he wasn't a witch. He would never know what it felt like to be hated and hunted. To watch people like you purged for the simple crime of being who they were.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter