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“I would give you a crown if I could," he said. "I would show you the world from the prow of a ship. I would choose you, Zoya. As my general, as my friend, as my bride. I would give you a sapphire the size of an acorn." He reached into his pocket. "And all I would ask in return is that you wear this damnable ribbon in your hair on our wedding day.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Most women suffer thorns for the sake of the flowers, but we who wield power adorn ourselves with flowers to hide the sting of our thorns”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Say something spiteful.”
“Why?” she asked faintly.
“Because I’m fairly certain I'm hallucinating and in my dreams you're much nicer.”
“You're an idiot, Nikolai.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Just a moment," David said, planting a finger on the page to mark his place in his book. "What was your name ?"
"Yuri Vedenen, moi soverenyi."
"Yuri Veneden, if you upset my wife again, I will kill you where you stand."
The monk swallowed. "Yes, moi soverenyi."
"Oh, David," Genya said, taking his hand. "You've never theatened to murder anyone for me before."
"Haven't I?" He murmured distractedly, placed a kiss on her knuckles, and continued reading.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“You’re late,” said Zoya. “I’m the king,” said Nikolai. “That means you’re early.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“The hardest lesson to learn as a parent is that your children are not copies of you. They are their own people who will make bad choices and mistakes.”
― Natasha Deen, In the Key of Nira Ghani

“Real advice, though? Stop trying to imagine what the other person wants to hear; that’s actively dumb.”
― Ben Philippe, Charming as a Verb

“But sometimes a person’s brain starts cycling. No matter what you do, the same thoughts just keep repeating, over and over. You get stuck in a loop, and when you’re inside that loop, you can’t see past it. You’ll keep coming up with the same possibilities, to no end, because the answers you need—they’re outside the loop. Distractions aren’t just distractions. Sometimes they can break you out of the loop.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Sometimes you have an idea of a person — about who they are, about what you'd be like together. But sometimes that's all that it is: an idea. And for so long, I have been afraid that I loved the idea of Emily more than I will ever be capable of loving anyone real.”

He looked at me like the act of doing so was painful and sweet. “It was never just the idea of you, Avery.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery—some things are too precious to gamble.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“The only person I trust with all that I am and all that could be, Heiress, is you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“The world is the board, Heiress. We just have to keep rolling the dice.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Everything's a game. Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in life is if we play to win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Like, even in fiction, friends to lovers? Never my thing. I'm more star-crossed tragedy, supernatural soul mates, enemies to lovers. Epic, you know?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“What is the human condition, if not Why me?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Someone told me once that fortunes like this one–at a certain point, it's not about the money, because you couldn't spend billions if you tried It's about the power." I looked down. "And I just don't think anyone should have power like that, certainly not me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Hawthornes aren’t supposed to break, his voice whispered in my memory. Especially me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Nash. Grayson. Jameson. Xander.” He said their names one at a time. “You were the clay, and I was the sculptor, and it has been the joy and honor of my life to make you better men than I will ever be. Men who may curse my name but will never forget it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“There is no such thing as fighting dirty, I told Nash, if you win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“They’d been sculpted by Tobias Hawthorne, formed and forged by the billionaire’s hands. They were extraordinary, and for the first time in their lives, they weren’t living under the weight of his expectations.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“So,” Libby said sagely, “chess.” “Chess,” I repeated. “The move—it’s called the Queen’s Gambit. Whoever’s playing white puts that second pawn in a position to be sacrificed, which is why it’s considered a gambit.” “Why would you sacrifice a piece?” Libby asked. I thought about billionaire Tobias Hawthorne, about Toby, about Jameson, Grayson, Xander, and Nash. “To take control of the board,” I said.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Aching for them, I wondered who had made Skye so desperate to be the center of someone's world that she couldn't even love her own children, for fear they wouldn't love her back enough.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“women can be just as dangerous as men.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“I’ve already learned my lesson here: when you catch someone lying about a murdered girl, you go ask them why.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“Your efficiency offends me.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“You're Pippa Fricking Fitz-Amo-bi. My little Sarge. Pippus Maximus, and there's nothing you can't do.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“I mean, if that ship were a person, I would fuck that ship,” said Baji.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“Hello.” Baji whistled behind Rin. “Who is that?”
“It’s Lady Yin Saikhara,” said Nezha.
“Is she married?” Baji asked.
Nezha shot him a disgusted look. “That’s my mother.” ”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“It hurts, Jacks.”
“I know, love. I’m going to take you somewhere safe.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After