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“Don't be so afraid to die. [...] If you [Neil] are, you have no place on our court."
"We're talking about a sport, not a death match."
"Same difference," Aaron said. "You're playing for Class I team with Kevin on your line. People are always willing to bleed for him.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

“No," he said. He said it without sadness, because however he had died to the gray world and the soft, olive-leafed world before that, he was in this world now. Estrella's.
This was the place he was coming back to life.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Wild Beauty

“You didn't ask to be born, you didn't make the world as it is, you didn't make yourself as you are. Why torment yourself? Why not take life just as it comes? You have the right to; you are not one of the guilty ones.” When you aren't rich or strong or powerful, you are not a guilty one. And you have the right to take life just as it comes and to be as happy as you can.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

“There was magic to things that were familiar and ordinary. The way they were known was a kind of enchantment, and when they were gone, the spell broke.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Wild Beauty