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“Are you some kind of Diviner?”
“No.”
“A monster, then?”
He almost smiled. “Don’t say you’ve been speaking with my mother?”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“It’s a weekend of “just us” as a family, which we’ll always remember. At least, I will.”
― Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

“She shook her head, though her shoulders trembled and her nails dug into her palms. “You are ridiculous, Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. I am just one girl. You are the Caliph of Khorasan, and you have a responsability to a kingdom.”

“If you are just one girl, I am just one boy.”

Shahrzad closed her eyes, unable to hold the fierce light in his gaze.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“This is horrible—this grieving somebody while they’re still here. Grieving a beautiful relationship that had decades of richness left in it, knowing what we have now will gradually be downgraded to some unutterable situation more akin to carer and patient. It’s awful, seeing him this sad for us, when it’s his life that’s going to be cut short.”
― Emma Grey, The Last Love Note