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“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

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

“How could he be so cruel and still so human?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince