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“Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“He treated Root exactly as he treated prime numbers. For him, primes were the base on which all other natural numbers relied; and children were the foundation of everything worthwhile in the adult world”
― Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor

“There were many ways to be alienated from someone, few to actually belong.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“I would live alone for fifty years to have one day with you.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree