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“I wanted just one girl, only one, to read my book and feel that she was understood, and I would be understood in return. Writing that book was like shining a beacon from a lighthouse, I suppose. Are there any ships on the horizon? Will they signal back to me?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“She didn't have the answers, didn't know what she wanted but she hoped to figure it out soon. And so she nodded, even though she wasn't certain that she meant it.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“Weaknesses were a human invention. They called it your weakness if they fantasized about murdering you with it.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“If there was no Hell waiting for us in the afterlife, I imagined you would build one with your bare hands just for me.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting