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“A pure fountain gives pure water”
― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows

“But Scarlett had already been broken. For years her father tore her down. Over and over, she had let him. She’d allowed him to make her feel worthless and powerless. But she was neither of those things. She was done allowing her fear to make her weaker, to eat away at the meat on her bones until she could do nothing but whimper and watch.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Ci resta sempre in fondo al cuore il rimpianto di un’ora, di un’estate, di un fuggevole istante in cui la giovinezza si schiude come una gemma.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Jézabel

“He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury