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“Outside, the night lay coiled in the street, cobra-cold and scaled with stars.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“I can offer you water or, um, water. Some of the pouches have a slightly different font, so you can choose serif hydration or sans serif hydration.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“When frustrated tears finally broke over his lashes, he attempted to squeeze them away, but Eridanys noticed. He sighed, using his thumbs to wipe them from Alba’s cheeks before they could drip all the way down.
“There’s enough salt in the sea,” he whispered. “Don’t add to it with tears, Albatross.”
― Kellen Graves, A Bone in His Teeth

“Stephen can, of course, use my power, for two reasons. Firstly, because it’s his, just as all I am and all I have are his. Not that he ever asks, of course. I’m not sure that he quite believes it.” He looked round at Stephen, a rueful smile dawning, ignoring Fairley’s loud noises of disgust. “But I do hope you are aware, my sweet, somewhere in that absurd heart, that I am ever, entirely, and quite pathetically yours.”
― K.J. Charles, Flight of Magpies

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― K.J. Charles

“Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound and were bandying it to and fro.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I think people make themselves beautiful. I think everything on our outside is a line sketch, and whatever’s on the inside blows those lines into three dimensions.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun

“It seems, unfortunately, that nothing can protect you from your own mind, your knowledge, your memories. The harder you fight to keep thoughts out, the harder they pound the battering ram to get in.”
― Jacqueline Holland, The God of Endings

“Children do deserve perfect love, but it isn't because they're perfect, which means it has to be some other word besides 'deserve'; but I don't know what the word is. But then it's true for adults too; after all, we're just the warped remains of imperfectly loved children. None of us gets the perfect love we ought, but maybe that's what life is for, to give us time to collect it in bits and pieces, a little here, a little there. Maybe we're supposed to put it together ourselves slowly.”
― Jacqueline Holland, The God of Endings

“IN LEO’S ROOM, I FIND the small stuffed giraffe, Max, on the floor beside the bed. I carry him down the hall, feeling the soft synthetic fur, the thick plush: all the pain and grief and tragedy accreted on this thing of string and cloth and stuffing, but how much Leo loves it, needs it, is soothed by it. That, I suppose, is how the brave do it, they just put it all together, the good and the bad, and they hold it tight to themselves, and walk on with it.”
― Jacqueline Holland, The God of Endings

“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“That’s right. He is Charls. I am Charls. We are cousins,’ said Charls, gamely, ‘named after our grandfather. Charls.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“They weren’t going to catch me. I was the motherfucking Gingerbread Man.”
― F.T. Lukens, Spell Bound

“I felt like a Victorian gentleman who had just seen their very first dainty ankle with the way my pulse sped up.”
― F.T. Lukens, Spell Bound

“Damen felt Laurent start shaking against him, and realised that, silently, helplessly, he was laughing.
There came the sound of at least two more sets of footsteps striding into the room, greeted with: 'Here he is. We found him fucking this derelict, disguised as the tavern prostitute.'
'This is the tavern prostitute. You idiot, the Prince of Vere is so celibate I doubt he even touches himself once every ten years. You. We're looking for two men. One was a barbarian soldier, a giant animal. The other was blond. Not like this boy. Attractive.'
'There was a blond lord's pet downstairs,' said Volo. 'Brained like a pea and easy to hoodwink. I don't think he was the Prince.'
'I wouldn't call him blond. More like mousy. And he wasn't that attractive,' said the boy, sulkily.
The shaking, progressively, had worsened.
'Stop enjoying yourself,' Damen murmured. 'We're going to be killed, any minute.'
'Giant animal,' said Laurent.
'Stop it.”
― S.U. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

“I think you can feel unhappy about your situation and still acknowledge the challenges others have. It's not one or the other.”
― F.T. Lukens, Otherworldly

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“A prince did not cry. A prince did not show weakness. A prince should not feel heartbroken.”
― Sher Lee, Legend of the White Snake

“To a man genuinely and deeply in love, there is no greater sorrow in the world than a broken heart. Love hurts. Without the love, where could the hurt come from?”
― Da Feng Gua Guo, Peach Blossom Debt