lmao

“Elian produces a small vial from his pocket with a flourish. “It’s less wily, but equally duplicitous.”
“Poison?” I muse. “Were you keeping that around for your future wife?”
“It’s not lethal,” Elian says. For a killer, he seems oddly offended at the idea. “And no.” He pauses, then turns to me with a half-smile. “Unless you were my wife.”
“If I were your wife, then I’d take it.”
“Ha!” He throws his head back and pockets the vial once more. “Thankfully that’s not something we have to worry about.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“But," I say hoarsely, clearing my throat, "do all these clients—patrons—know how she did this experiment? What it took?"

"Would it matter now, if they knew?" She shrugs at me. "If the end results are this remarkable, would you throw away the research just because the process was unethical? Immoral human experimentation has been around forever, has been performed by your country, by mine, by everyone. You think people don't want the results of this kind of research, regardless of how it's obtained? People ultimately don't care about the journey, if the end is worth it. And what was the price tag here, in exchange for immortality?"

One life.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“People ultimately don’t care about the journey, if the end is worth it.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“I'm not going to tell you it's never too late. But, in my experience, it's always the not doing that I regret more.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard