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“Fascinating, isn't it, how often heroic and foolish turn out to be one and the same.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“I think I understand better now,” she said slowly. “Your jokes. Your…pranks. You wield laughter like a weapon, a protection against your awful circumstances. I think you’re trying to create lightness where there is so much dark.”
One of his eyebrows lifted. “Yes, you have it exactly right. I assure you, I only think of daisies and shooting stars and bringing merriment into this dreadful world. I never think at all of how His Foulness will turn blue with anger and he’ll spend half the night cursing my existence. That would just be spiteful. Far beneath me.”
She laughed.
“I suppose spite can be a weapon, too.”
“Absolutely. My favorite, in fact. Well. Other than a sword. Because who doesn’t love a sword?”
― Marissa Meyer, Gilded

“My existence is a scandal”
― Oscar Wilde

“One cannot be brave who has no fear.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades