“Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities.”
― Fourth Wing
― Fourth Wing
“We don’t know how much our bodies can endure until we make cruel demands of them.”
― Hidden Pictures
― Hidden Pictures
“Sometimes the cheapest things are the most valuable.”
― The Sweetest Oblivion
― The Sweetest Oblivion
“Because we don’t get to choose our obsessions. And you’re mine.”
― Shadow Princess
― Shadow Princess
“in the same way you know perfectly well you ought to stop reading and go to bed and you’ll feel hideously groggy in the morning if you don’t, and yet you keep going.”
― The Golden Enclaves
― The Golden Enclaves
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