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“Sometimes she still said things that wounded me. And not because they were lies.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Suffer the fate, for all else is delusion.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Why do you have this expectation that life will make concessions for you?' She scowled. 'We are not promised ease, comfort, or fairness. Only pain and death.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Stand up straight. Speak clearly. Don’t be afraid to think about your answer—the pause feels longer to you than it does to them.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“For now,” she said, “just be my friend again, okay? And we can talk about the whole ‘I’m still in love with you, what the hell do we do about it’ question later.”
Akos smiled.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Take what you want. I’ll hate you for it. But I’ll love you forever. I can’t help but love you.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“You can’t do this for me,” he said. “I won’t let you.”
“It’s not for you. It’s not a favor. It’s the cruelest thing I could do.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“You don't fix hurts by pretending they never happened. You treat them like infected wounds. You dig deep with a burning knife and gouge out the rotten flesh and then, maybe, you have a chance to heal.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“She recognized the way he was looking at her. It was how she’d once looked at Altan. It was the way she’d seen Daji look at Riga—that look of wretched, desperate, and reproachful loyalty. It said, Do it. Take what you want, it said. I’ll hate you for it. But I’ll love you forever. I can’t help but love you. Ruin me, ruin us, and I’ll let you.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“Yet, rin supposed, lovers could still inflict that kind of violence on each other. Hadn't Riga loved Daji? Hadn't Jiang loved Tseveri?

Hadn't nezha once loved her?”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“If you sanction it, you'll horrify them. If you denounce it, they'll resent you. But if you keep quiet, you get plausible deniability.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“Elites with entrenched interests will always hate you," Daji said. "That's inevitable. But the elites don't matter, the masses do. What you have to do is shroud yourself in myth. Your enemies' deaths become part of your legend. Eventually you will become so far removed from reality that right and wrong don't apply to you. Your identity becomes part and parcel of the idea of the nation itself. They'll love you no matter what you do.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“The world is already ending. You see, the Hundred Clans know that time moves in a circle. There are never any new stories, just old ones told again and again as this universe moves through its cycles of civilization and crumbles into despair. We are on the brink of an age of chaos again, and there's nothing we can do to stop it. I just prefer to back certain horses in the race.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“You asked how large my sorrow is. And I answered, like a river in spring flowing east.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“Her mother sneered. “Then you are a fool.”

“Good. I’ve become rather fond of fools.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Empty and numb.
She no longer hurt. That broken heart had been killing her, and it was gone.
Her sorrow. Her loss. Her pain, all gone.
All that was left was the rage and the fury and the desperate need for vengeance that would soon, soon be hers.
“W-what happened?” stuttered the King. “What did they do?”
“They freed me,” Cath whispered.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless