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“I still meet grief in sudden places, when I least expect it. A familiar song. A smell from the kitchen. Then there it is. An enemy that can’t be bested.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“I never told you I couldn’t read.” “You let me believe it.” “It’s good to let a man have his illusions,” Luzia said.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar, The Familiar

“I know what it is to lower yourself, to keep your eyes downcast, to seek invisibility. It is a danger to become nothing. You hope no one will look, and so one day when you go to find yourself, only dust remains, ground down to nothing from sheer neglect.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“He died that way, alone in his bed, afraid to leave, afraid to stay, afraid to whisper anything but 'tomorrow.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar