The cruelest fate the gods and stars had ever written: the person I loved most in the world was the person who would ultimately destroy me.
“Love is what remains when everything else is gone.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“Books had always been her solace; novels gave her the space to be bold, brave, beautiful, if only in her own imagination.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“Courage is fear you ignore.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“When a war was ended, the men lost their lives. But the women lost everything else.”
― A Thousand Ships
― A Thousand Ships
“Thank God for girlfriends. In this crazy, chaotic, divided world that was run by men, you could count on the women.”
― The Women
― The Women
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