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“Images of mismatched eyes and a wicked smirk”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“sometimes there’s beauty in the tough words—it’s all in how you read them.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“She was a non-active member of the Order of the Eternal Flame and did not fight.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Being alive is not the same as living. I hope someday you'll have a chance to realise the difference.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Someday, she promised herself, someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn't stolen”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“You’re like a rose in a graveyard,” he said, and his lips twisted into a bitter smile. “I wonder what you could have turned into without the war.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“You are not replaceable," he said, his hands trembling against her shoulders. "You are not required to make your death convenient. You are allowed to be important to people.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Do I know you?” she asked as her eyes slid closed. “I suppose you do.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“I have warned you, if something happens to you, I will personally raze the Eternal Flame. That isn't a threat. It is a promise. Consider your survival as much as necessity to the Resistance as Holdfast's. If you die, I will kill every single one of them.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“He’d loved her, even though he never expected them to be anything but doomed. He’d loved her all the same.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“If he’s a monster, then I’m his creator.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“What if it’s not that simple, though?” she said “Everyone who wins says they were good, but they’re the ones who tell the story. They get to choose how we all remember it. What if it’s never that simple?”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Sometimes she wished she’d died in the hospital with her father, to be remembered and mourned for her possibilities, rather than live day by day growing ever lesser. Now it didn’t matter if she’d been an alchemist, or a healer, or anything else. To anyone who ever learned of it, she would only be that one thing. Women were always defined by the lowliest thing they could be called.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“They were the inverse and counter to each other. A healer and killer, circling slowly, the push and pull inexorable.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“You are not expandable. You don't get to push everyone away so that they'll feel comfortable using you and letting you die”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Oh, Marino.” His thumb trailed along her neck, following the scar below her jaw. “If I’d known what pain you’d cause me, I never would have taken you.” He sighed, and she could smell the liquor on his breath as his head dipped closer. She had no idea what he meant, if she was supposed to apologise. “But at this point I suppose I deserve to burn. I wonder if you’ll burn, too.” His face was so close the words brushed against her lips, and his mouth crashed against hers.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“I promised I’d do anything for you.” She curled her fingers into a fist. “Maybe you didn’t realise how far I was willing to go.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“He could have been entirely ordinary, and she would have made all the same choices.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“You made me feel like the parts of me that aren’t useful still deserve to exist. Like I’m not just all the things I can do.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Someday, she promised herself, someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn’t stolen.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“You’ll do anything for the people who’ll let you love them.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised