Helene

“Our promises don’t matter. No one expects us to have any honor. Everyone knows we lie.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I take one last look at my reflection in the mirror. Ashes already flake down over my cheeks and nose, marking me. The red stain I used on my lips looks like fresh blood. Underneath, I see bits and pieces of my mother staring back at me, but twisted with hate and fury my mother never needed to know.
I'm not sorry for it.
I am angry.
I am hungry.
And I promise myself that one day I will watch them all burn.”
― Laura Sebastian, Ash Princess

“He didn't understand that sometimes the only way to take down what had destroyed you was to disguise yourself as part of it.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“Sometimes I wonder if a person can have so much regret they'll drown in it.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Incendiary