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“Only he looked to the stars and demanded more.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“He studied me for a long moment. He had always watched me this way, as if I were an equation that didn't quite tally.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Someone to mourn me...No grave...for them to desecrate.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“With a start, I realized that the room smelled like him. I had never even noticed that he had a scent. I shut my eyes and breathed deeply. What was it? The crisp edge of a winter wind. Bare branches. The smell of absence, the smell of night.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm