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“He had been strong for his country, his soldiers, his friends. It meant something different to be strong for her.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Nothing is all good or all bad," she says. "Life is so much messier than that."

And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it.

Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow?

Were the moments of beauty worth the years of pain?

And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says, "Always.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“You push us away, keep us at arm's distance so that you won't mourn us. But you'll mourn us anyway. That's the way love works.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Maybe the gift of being human is that we do not give up—even when all hope is lost.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves