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“But yes,” he said wearily. “As I could, I loved you. Now will you go? Live.” “I, too,” she said. “In a childish way, as girls love heroes that come in the night, I loved you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“Will you say it?

"Aleksander"

His grin faded and his grey eyes seemed to flicker.

"Again."

"Aleksander”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Live,” she said. “You said you loved me. Live.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“As I could, I loved you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch