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“Because it wasn't the people she'd killed who haunted her. It was the people she'd let die, the ones she couldn't save.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“The problem wasn't books and fairy tales, just that they told half the story, offering up the illusion of a world where only the villains paid in blood, the ogre stepmother, the wicked stepsisters, where magic was just and without sacrifice.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“She’d never liked that phrase, diamond in the rough. All that meant was they had to cut you again and again to let the light in.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Fuck," he gasped.
Alex blinked. "I think that's the first time I've heard you
swear."
Chills shook him and he tried to control the tremors that quaked through his body. "I c-c-class p-p-profanity with declarations of love. Best used sparingly and only when wholeheartedly m-m-meant.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House