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“Strange, that girls are so often told that the loss of their virginity marks a threshold between girlhood and womanhood, as if it fundamentally alters them in some way. It was not the sex that changed the girl forever. Not the blood that spilled between her thighs that shaped her. The blood that spilled over that marble floor, though… Those are the stains on one’s innocence that never fade.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“So don’t you fucking dare stop fighting, princess. It would break my damned heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Hundreds of years later, historians and scholars would look back upon this moment. This decision that, one day, would topple an empire. What a strange choice, they would whisper. Why would he do this? Why, indeed. After all, vampires know better than anyone how important it is to protect their hearts. And love, understand, is sharper than any stake.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“His eyes softened as they flicked back to me. I really did try not to notice, or care, that they drank me in the same way he drank in sunshine.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night