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“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“Her heart was a river that carried her to the sea.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“I don't love you. And I can kill anything.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“Until this moment, Wylan hadn't quite understood how much they meant to him. His father would have sneered at these thugs and thieves, a disgraced soldier, a gambler who couldn't keep out of the red. But they were his first friends, his only friends, and Wylan knew that even if he'd had his pick of a thousand companions, these would have been the people he chose.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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