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“I keep everything hidden because there's nothing about my true self that anyone likes. I'm not difficult, Sebastian. I'm the easiest person around. I don't belong, and I spend all my time pretending I do. Sometimes I get weary of it, and that makes me angry.

It's not fair to the people around me when I lose my temper. I say awful things when I'm angry. But it's not fair to me, either, that I was made this way.”
― Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy

“Ah, the rule that says that women aren’t allowed to be intelligent.” He brushed a kiss against her forehead. “Burn that one to the ground, Violet, and dance on the ashes. And damn anyone who tells you it’s selfish to do so.”
― Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy

“Sebastian will never fight wars, but it's because of people like him that the rest of us don't have to fight as many of them. He makes everyone around him more than what they are.”
― Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy

“I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.”
― Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy

“I'm not difficult," Violet said. "I'm simple. I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time. How does that make me difficult? I make sense? I don't talk about my feelings, of course, but then, I don't want to." She shrugged. "So that's reasonable."

Sebastian smiled despite himself, a smile that felt bitter even to him. "God, no. Not feelings. Heaven forbid that you have anything so messy."

"I have feelings." She spoke stiffly. "I just don't talk about them. What's the point? Talking never changes them.”
― Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy

“She made everything happen, and still she remained invisible to the people she loved the most.”
― Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy

“The only thing worse than an unlovable woman was an unlovable woman who whined about not being loved.”
― Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy

“A life without risk is one where I tell myself I'm not worthy of taking a chance.”
― Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy

“I'm not a fair woman," she choked out. "I want impossible, contradictory things. I'm all hard edges, Sebastian. Hard edges and crumpled pieces and broken pieces of glass. There is no way for you to win this.”
― Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy

“That's the way things were; people liked Lily, and while they were busy liking her, Violet got things done.

It never bothered Violet. She liked having things to do, and if her sister hadn't been there, they wouldn't have liked Violet any better. They'd only have ignored her more.”
― Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy

“Violet,” he said. “How could I say I loved you and expect you to do something you didn’t want?”
― Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy

“She made her shoulder blades into steel, willing them to stay rigid against his onslaught. She was a thing of gears and metal, strong like clockwork, and she wouldn’t melt down into tears.”
― Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy

“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“He watches her the way Harshaw watches fire. Like he’ll never have enough of her. Like he’s trying to capture what he can before she’s gone.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“You are all I’ve ever wanted,” he said. “You are the whole of my heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“It’s a vow that if I can’t be anything else to you, at least I can be a weapon in your hand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“You were meant for more than me, and I'll die fighting to give it to you. But please don't ask me to pretend it's easy.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Everyone okay?" Mal asked.

"Never better," said Genya shakily.

David raised his hand. "I've been better.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“We all die. Not everyone dies for a reason.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“And the Darkling?"
"I tried to kill him."
"As one does.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Idiot.”
“That fact is well established and adds nothing to the plot.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“When evening fell the boy would bring the girl a glass of tea, a slice of lemon cake, an apple blossom floating in a blue cup. He would kiss her neck and whisper new names in her ear: beauty, beloved, cherished, my heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“You move forward, and when you falter, you get up. And when you can't, you let us carry you. You let me carry you.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“That first winter, when it was time for her friends to leave, the girl ventured out into the show to say goodbye, and the stunning raven-haired Squaller handed her another gift.

"A blue kefta," said the math teacher, shaking her head. "What would she do with that?"

"Maybe she knew a Grisha who died," replied the cook, taking note of the tears that filled the girl's eyes. They did not see the note that read, You will always be one of us.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“I love you. I've never in my life loved anything more.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, A Question of Holmes

“Beyond life, beyond death, my love for thee is eternal.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil

“We needn't complete each other, we complemented each other.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil

“The world needed to be better. And if it wasn’t possible for it to be better, we, its inhabitants, needed to do better.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil