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“In America, when you’re a Black man, you’re a boy. It doesn’t matter how old, or how educated. You’re a boy until the day you die. ‘Watch your mouth, boy. Don’t get smart, boy.’ ” He shrugged. “In France I’m a man.” “The Nazis don’t see you as a man.” “There are Nazis everywhere. They just go by different names.”
― Morgan Ryan, A Resistance of Witches

“We don’t die, my love, Evelyn had told her, though Lydia remembered her mother’s eyes were red and rimmed with tears. Not really. We change, yes. We become other things—the grass and flowers, trees and wind and stars. We rejoin the Great Mother, and our souls disperse into the universe, and become a part of a hundred million other living things, forever and ever.”
― Morgan Ryan, A Resistance of Witches

“Books were thresholds, and you could cross them and leave yourself behind, or use what you found inside to transform into someone else.”
― L.R. Lam, Dragonfall

“A dragon without its rider is a tragedy.
A rider without their dragon is dead.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing