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“I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery- some things are just too precious to gamble.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“He was going to break my legs,” she said, her chin held high, the barest quaver in her voice. “Would you have come for me then, Kaz? When I couldn’t scale a wall or walk a tightrope? When I wasn’t the Wraith anymore?”

Dirtyhands would not. The boy who could get them through this, get their money, keep them alive, would do her the courtesy of putting her out of her misery, then cut his losses and move on.

“I would come for you,” he said, and when he saw the wary look she shot him, he said it again. “I would come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together—knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom