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“They were twin souls, soldiers destined to fight for different sides, to find each other and lose each other too quickly. She would not keep him here. Not like this.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“He wouldn’t die a lie.”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men

“I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History