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“But his kindness is addictive.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“How can this woman have spent half her life in Nostraza and turn out like that? It should have broken her. It should have left her as a shell. But somehow, she survived both that and Atlas’s Trials and came out on the other end in a blazing ball of confident fire that threatens to burn me up every time she walks into the room. It’s as though her spirit has always understood her legacy and her purpose.
She behaves exactly like a queen. A slightly wild one with a short fuse, but a queen nonetheless.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“I mean, it’s the same situation. When you have nothing, you can’t build anything. When your days are spent wondering where your next meal is coming from or how you’re going to survive the night without having your throat slit, you don’t have the time or the energy or the motivation to make your life better. You’re too busy simply surviving.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“Yes, you can. You’re going to do this because you are the strongest fucking woman I’ve ever met. Because you’re a queen without her crown and it’s time to take it back. Do you hear me?”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Rule of the Aurora King

“It’s as though her spirit has always understood her legacy and her purpose.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Rule of the Aurora King

“Never underestimate the enduring fragility of a man who suffers from a lack of confidence.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Fate of the Sun King

“I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“I let you die. To save myself, I let you die.
That is the danger in keeping company with survivors.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Darlington was a good talker, but he was happiest when no one was speaking to him, when he didn’t have to perform the ritual of himself and he could simply be left to watch others.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Didn’t someone say love is a shared delusion?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Stories were immutable. And what was a library but a house full of stories?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Why raise children on the promise of magic? Why create a want in them that can never be satisfied—for revelation, for transformation—and then set them adrift in a bleak, pragmatic world?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“A man was speaking, so I stopped listening.”
― Jasmine Mas, Blood of Hercules

“Mental note—physical exertion makes me homicidal. Avoid anything above a brisk walk.”
― Jasmine Mas, Blood of Hercules

“During the day, the feminine urge to lead a fictional revolt plagued me.”
― Jasmine Mas, Blood of Hercules

“It wasn’t about women being as tough as men; it was about the fact that they shouldn’t have to be.”
― Jasmine Mas, Blood of Hercules

“I would have been offended, but I was too busy trying to find my will to live, like the aforementioned pathetic, weak bitch,”
― Jasmine Mas, Blood of Hercules

“What's the next step after panicking? I need to do that.”
― Jasmine Mas, Blood of Hercules

“That is my hope for you, dear reader. It’s the same hope I had for Rune at the beginning of her story. (And for myself, in a way.) I hope you stop caring so much about the opinions of others and allow yourself to live. I hope you find the courage to be unapologetically yourself and start making your life—and maybe even the world—what you and the ones you love need it to be.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“Did a person change depending on their circumstances? Or was there something permanent about everyone? Something steadfast and true, despite their circumstances?”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“I think someone broke her."
"Ah, anything else?"
"I'm afraid I won't be able to put her back together."
"You can't put her back together. Only she can do that.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“If you cannot be stronger, be smarter. Choose both your battles and your enemies with care. Know when to flee a fight to win a war.”
― Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame

“But I was made of swinging fists and rash words, my edges too jagged and my temper too hot. Nothing about me was delicate.”
― Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame

“Survive, my father’s words echoed in my ears. At whatever cost, to whatever end. Survive first, mind the consequences later.”
― Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame

“I’d always been a spitfire, and proud of it. An unbreakable spirit in a world that wanted me to be quiet, small, subservient.”
― Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame

“It’s a reminder that no challenge can destroy the parts of us that truly matter. We’re not reborn in the flames. We’re revealed.”
― Penn Cole, Glow of the Everflame

“Strange, how armor could be both a shield and a cage, keeping the arrows out while trapping the monster in.”
― Penn Cole, Glow of the Everflame

“When all else fails, keep moving,” I said to the empty room, echoing the command my father had drilled into me. “If you cannot run, then walk. If you cannot walk, then crawl.” ​His voice filled my stormy mind. If you are outnumbered or overwhelmed, or if all seems lost, just keep moving. Onward, until the very last breath.”
― Penn Cole, Glow of the Everflame

“Don’t mistake the pain of change for failure.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame