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“My evil plan was working. Step one: get Aly to drop her guard. Step two: fuck her on this couch. Oh, wait, no. I’d skipped a few steps somewhere”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“I thought we could spend some quality time together as a family. You, me. Our maladjusted son who just scooted his butt across the carpet behind you.”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“Fuck me,” I muttered. “Kind of a weird time to offer,” Aly said without missing a beat. “Can I take a raincheck until after we’ve disposed of the body and you get a chance to brush your teeth?”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“This man is always coming onto my FYP and never on me, and that is a tragedy,”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“I nearly kicked at the floor like a petulant child. But I don't wanna go to bed! I want to stay up late and get railed!”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“I need so much more therapy than I’m currently getting.”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“Reader, I puke-laughed. And, no. I do not recommend it.”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“Claiming me? Oh, god. No, vagina, do not quiver at that. Damn it. Not you, too, ovaries.”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“No. Goddamnit. I did not need a brat kink on top of my newly awakened praise kink. The two were supposed to cancel each other out, not act as amplifiers.”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“​Jean noticed how Andrew and Neil moved like they were caught in each other’s gravity, in each other’s space more than they were out of it, cigarette smoke and matching armbands and lingering looks when one fell out of orbit for too long.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court

“You are Jean Moreau. Your place is here with me, with us. I’m your captain. You’re my partner. We’re supposed to be doing this together, aren’t we? Stop leaving me behind. Look at me.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court

“What you hold onto is less important than the act of holding on itself. It’s so easy to get lost in ourselves and this world. Sometimes you need to find your way back one tiny miracle at a time.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court

“I believe we all have the choice to be better than the hands that shaped us.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court

“I don’t believe in miracles,” Jean said. “I have enough faith for us both,” Renee promised”
― Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court

“Promise me you won’t try again. Promise me, Jean. I don’t want to lose you.”
Promise me, except he’d walked away years later without a second thought.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry that he hurt you, I’m sorry that you’re still afraid to talk about it, and I’m sorry that you think I’ll never understand. I’m sorry that he tricked you into thinking you deserved it. But I’m not sorry he’s gone. I can’t be.’ … because after a tense minute of silence Jean finally admitted, ‘Neither am I”
― Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court

“I am not sorry. Perhaps I should be. But I will choose you every time. You, and Cat, and Laila, every time. I will lose them all if I must.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven

“That malfunctioning cretin existed to cause trouble for everyone in a thousand-mile radius,”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven

“​Jeremy would be lucky to know his own name when Jean was standing between his legs like this.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven

“I’m glad you’re alive,” she said. “I’m so happy you’re here with us, and I hope you’re happy, too. I hope you tell us when you’re not so we can help you. You’re our friend, and we love you.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven

“How Jean’s kind heart had survived a place like Evermore, Jeremy wasn’t sure. It was bruised and bleeding, but it wasn’t broken.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven

“A brother is a complicated thing,”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven

“It was Rhemann’s voice in his head, Rhemann’s and his friends’ and Neil’s, drowning out his miserable thoughts and excuses with unrelenting force. Jean squeezed his hands until his fingers went numb and willed himself to believe the words as he slowly spoke them into existence: “I deserve to get better.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven

“Maybe you are fools, and I am the biggest fool for indulging you, but better to be reckless fools than Ravens.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven

“It makes you more interesting,” Jean said, and watched the way Jeremy’s jaw worked on silent protests. That he wouldn’t even defend himself said worlds to how disappointed he was in his thoughtlessness; he didn’t want Jean to like this side of him. Jean finally took pity on him and explained, “Not your capacity for unkindness, but how fiercely you fight against it.”​It wasn’t the answer Jeremy was expecting, judging by the look on his face, but this was not the time or place to get into it.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven

“But Dr. Spader said grief isn’t supposed to get easier: you just become someone strong enough to weather it. You let the good things and the good days shore you up so the bad days can’t tear you down.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven

“Repeat after me: I didn’t deserve what they did to me.”​
Rhemann didn’t know what he was asking; he didn’t know what this would cost. Panic chewed a line from Jean’s gut to his heart. He couldn’t refuse a coach’s direct order, but he could beg: “Please don’t make me, Coach.”
​“I need you to say it and mean it, Jean,” Rhemann said. “Please.”​
Please was so uncalled-for Jean could only stare at him, heart hammering louder than his thoughts. He could feel every chain straining, waiting for the words that would rend them powerless at last. He was afraid to open his mouth again lest he get sick, but at length managed a hesitant, “I didn’t deserve—” heavy hands, heavier racquets, dark rooms, darker blood, teeth and knives and drowning, I’m drowning, I’m drowning “—what they did to me.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven

“If I threw a rock into the chasm between your talents and his, I don’t think I’d ever hear it hit bottom.”​ It was so uncharacteristically rude Jean could only stare at him.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven

“I was glad when he lost his hand. Exy is all he has and all he loves; I knew it would destroy him to lose it. A month in the nest without it, maybe two, and he would have no recourse but to kill himself. I was only alive because he made me promise to survive. If he died, who could hold me to that? I would have slashed the tires on his car before I let him escape us, and he knows it.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven

“Hannah Bailey is a rancid bitch.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven