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“If only she could just stop being so wonderful for a moment, he could figure out exactly what to do with all of his feelings for her.”
― A.K. Caggiano, Eclipse of the Crown

“I want you. I want you as much as I loathe you—so much, it feels like I can’t breathe.” His parted lips dragged across my cheek, his whisper scathing near my ear. “Give me back my fucking breath.”
― Ella Fields, Amid Clouds and Bones

“You have to want the time you have.”
Azrael uttered a low, humorless laugh and said, “Why?”
Lan shrugged. “Because you have it, whether you want it or not. And
life is motion. That’s something else he used to say all the time. You can
move toward what you want or away from it, but you can’t stop, so you have
to want the time you have, because it’s all the time you get.”
“That loses its intended impact when ‘all the time you get’ is all the
time there is.”
“Master Wickham would say that only means you have a limitless
potential for change.”
“Would he indeed?”
“He’d say no one can live your life for you and no one else can waste
it. He’d say you carry the sole responsibility for your own success or failure.”
― R. Lee Smith, Land of the Beautiful Dead

“How do you control a population? You keep the people poor and uneducated. Tell them the same lie for centuries, and tie that lie to religion. Those people will believe you even when the truth is dancing naked in front of them. Because to believe otherwise would mean their entire world has always been a lie. And that realization is too difficult for most people to take.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely