Julia

“Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“I want to tell you so many lies”
― Holly Black , The Wicked King

“That’s when I learned that when people die, they sometimes take the living with them.”
― Angie Thomas, On the Come Up