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“Can’t bring the light unless I know what the darkness looks like, Warden.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone

“It is an injustice, Mische, that this is what you got when you asked for love,” he murmured. “This isn’t what love should feel like.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone

“She looked at me with such abject, undeserved affection. It made me think of how a sunrise I’d never witnessed must feel.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk

“I didn’t ask to be married to a stranger and shipped across the continent. I didn’t ask to come to Turah. I didn’t ask to be jailed in a wilderness treehouse. Those were decisions made for me by the whims of men. So you can threaten to take away my freedom all you want, but I will fight you. Every step of the way. Until my last breath. And I will not go quietly into a cage.”
― Devney Perry, Shield of Sparrows