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“Men from upper-class families were welcome to be openly delighted by their craft. It made them interesting and eccentric, committed and passionate. When women did it, it made us vapid.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“My blood. My books. My knowledge. Anything. It is yours.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“But he just said, calmly, “You are a very beautiful woman.” It wasn’t an invitation, like the first night he had asked me if I wanted to spend the night with him. He wasn’t flirting with me. No, it was an observation, clear and simple as those in the books spread before us, and Vale simply let it lie there and then turned back to his book.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“And there, at their center, was Vitarus.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“All we can do is live it.” She looks straight in my eyes, her expression almost stern. “Live your life, Quinn. Every minute of it. Don’t drift through it—live it.”
― Kristy Boyce, Dating and Dragons

“The last-page ache. The deep breath in after you’ve set the book aside.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Effy had once thought her gaze empty, but now she realized that the girl had simply escaped her own body, her spirit wandering elsewhere while Myrddin's camera flashed over her naked breasts.
Effy knew that trick well. It was almost like magic. If you tried hard enough, you could believe yourself out of the cold and banal world.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“He was the only thing that felt solid, stable, and true. Without him she would slip under and never resurface.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Life kept going, the Earth kept spinning, everyone moved on, but I stayed still.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“If you give me the space to grow, I’ll plant myself next to you. Always.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“I decided having something fake with you was better than having nothing at all. I would have faked it forever rather than give you up.”
― Kristy Boyce, Dungeons and Drama

“I was a woman when it was convenient to blame me, and a girl when they wanted to use me.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“That was the cruelest irony: the more you did to save yourself, the less you became a person worth saving.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“I will love you to ruination.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“I wish I had fought.” Effy surprised herself by saying it. The words had leaped out of her throat, unbidden. “I know I beat him in the end, but for so many years all I could do was run and hide. I just sat there and let the water pour in around me. I didn’t know that I could fight back. I didn’t know how to do anything but wait to drown.”
“Oh no, Effy. That’s not what I meant at all. You don’t have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery, too.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“There was an intimacy to all violence, she supposed. The better you knew someone, the more terribly you could hurt them.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“But if fairies and monsters were real, so were the women who defeated them.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“It was not a sacrifice. It was an exchange: Close your eyes, child, and you will see an entire world.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“You have a kind heart, Sylina,” she said. “That is a gift to Acaeja, even if it is, at times, a burden to you. Temper your expectations of this world. But do not dampen your fire. You’ll need it for what’s ahead.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“I still could not quite make sense of his presence. Alone in a room with him, it was overwhelming all over again—contradictions that I had never before experienced within a soul, and all of them roiling constantly.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“A woman alone in this world sometimes needs to perform to make men take her seriously.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“It can sometimes be difficult for me to feel grateful for what I have because I’m thinking about what I’ve lost or what I could lose. I feel directionless, because I don’t really know my own feelings or wants or desires. I just sort of live in some…middle.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“When you’re not near, you occupy every corner of my life. Half of my thoughts are about you. All of my dreams involve you. My hopes and fears and purpose revolve around you.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a community of women trying to mind their own business must be in want of a random man’s opinion.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“(Seriously: why are men?)”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“If there is one thing men hate more than a smart woman, it's a smart woman who makes her own choices when it comes to her sex life.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“I thought of the fucking Pythora King. And I thought, Yes. Kill them all. And I did not think of the Arachessen, or the Sightmother, or the blessed dagger—or Acaeja at all.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“Because you make me ravenous.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“I was the one to take the first step, leading us into the mist.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror