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"He's an inferno, a wildfire. It burns everything in its path, and right now, that's me. But the thing is, I would gladly burn, and I don't even know why."

"Vipers? Bitch, please, I bite too."

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"Remember the game, or your world it dies.
Remember to follow the patterns and signs.
We wait in the shadows a-twisting your fate,
While you crawl and you stumble blind into the gate.
It's all predetermined, no losses no gains,
So play, little human, keep playing the game."

"Love, family, like the words husband and wife, they are so fraught."

"It doesn't matter whether or not he believes her. It's as though he can smell Peter on her skin, his wildness, his magic, and it's enough to make him want to break her."

"If Hook was here, would he still seem a villain in her eyes? As a child, she'd failed to see the truth of Peter, or even consider there might be more to him than his games and bright smiles. Had she misjudged his greatest enemy as well? Might she see a flicker of desperation in Hook's eyes? Fear? Wendy can only imagine what his life in Neverland must have been, a grown man trapped by the whims of an impetuous child"

"Loving something means having something to lose."

"Darling, darling, darling. She knows the word for fondness, knows Ned means nothing by it, but she can't help loathing it. The word has become a weapon, not in Ned's mouth, not on purpose, but over the years it's become a word to soothe, to dismiss, to hush. Her own name taken from her and turned against her - a gag, a chain."

"I had fallen in love with his vulnerability all those years ago. I had thought it made him different to all other men and gods alike. But it was his misery that made me uneasy now. Because if I had learned anything, I had learned enough to know that a god in pain is dangerous."

"so many agonised entreaties to the heavens for the suffering to stop. Mount Olympus should ring to the top of its golden pillars with the sound of human misery. But Dionysus had told me that the only noise that echoes in its halls was the self-satisfied chatter of the immortals."

"all a woman can do in this world is take what she wants from it and crush those who would stand in her way before they break her into fragments"

"I know that human life shines more brightly because it is but a shimmering candle against an eternity of darkness and it can be extinguished with the faintest breeze."

"When the stars collapse in on us all and the world is consumed by fire, when everything is reduced to white dust, Hades will still sit and rule his swollen kingdom."

"All mortals live and die by the threads they spin - and each mortal shall die when they cut that thread... All I could do was cut from him the light of his soul at the moment that he died so that I could save it from the chill eternity of the Underworld. I placed my Ampelos instead among the stars, where his beauty would brighten the night sky for all humanity to marvel at."

"Acceptance stole its way through my veins, filling my body with the weight of understanding... No more children would make that fearful voyage from Athens, quaking at the prospect of being devoured in the dark. Perhaps my life was a fair price to pay."

"it was a king's duty to hold up the sky for his citizens, to prevent them from being crushed beneath it, no matter how much his back may buckle or his muscles scream for mercy."

"Did I feel the cogs of destiny, the gliding of the Fates' loom, or was it actually just the thumping of my excited heart?"

"What I did not know was that I had hit upon a truth of womanhood: however blameless a life we led, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do."

"Control the children, control the council. No one fights when their offspring are in danger."

"those watching the club thought it was the biggest threat, those watching his eyes would likely not bend, those watching his feet were broken. Those watching his chest, though, oh, those were the ones he wanted. They were waiting for him to strike, club or foot or hand, ignoring the lies he'd tell with his face and eyes and focusing on his body to give him away."

"The words Lilla had spoken at their parting came back to him: 'You're taking my heart with you. Make sure you bring it back.' And Tayan's reply, whispered against his mouth as he stretched up for a final kiss: 'I leave mine here, my love. Look after it.'"

"They did nothing but accumulate wealth and enemies and buy people to tend to them, as though they were helpless newborns.

Their actions tilted the world between their feet, destroyed the harmony of nature, the delicate pause between plenty and poverty, life and death. The ancestors cried out at the indignity, at the brands of ownership, the bowed heads, the fearful silence."

"To be so close to one of the gods was to know fear and rapture in their purest forms"

I love when fictional religions take such a large focus in a fantasy books. I find it endlessly intriguing to see how the pantheon is built and how faith to them is enacted.

"The song was their magic, their strength, never ending; it whispered its harmonies into the spirits of every person within the Empire's bounds, from full-blood Pecha to the lowest slave."

2am when I'm sick and can't sleep is the perfect time to start a new epic high fantasy series, right??

"You are good, Cassian. And you are brave, and brilliant, and kind. I could kill anyone who has ever made you feel less than that - less than what you are."

No! No! No! I need my family happy and back together, please!

JESUS CHRIST, SARAH!

"Death watched him.

But Death had walked beside him every day of his life. So Cassian stroked his thumb along her palm and said, "Hello, Nes."

MY HEART!!!