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“Alex watched in the mirror as her history spilled over her skin. The scars she had chosen for herself. We are the shepherds. The time for that was done. Better to be a rattler. Better to be a jackal.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Her map had been changed. Her coastline altered. Mors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“I am a mortal who has woken up, and there is power in awareness.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Darlington liked to say that dealing with ghosts was like riding the subway: Do not make eye contact. Do not smile. Do not engage. Otherwise, you never know what might follow you home.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House