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“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“No matter how brave I might try to seem, really the heart that beats within my rib cage is weak and broken and scared, and I am just a human girl kneeling before a demon king.”
― Natasha Ngan

“I’m a very valuable investment.”

“Tell me he didn’t say that.”

“Of course he did. Well, not the valuable part.”
“Idiot.”

“How’s Matthias?”

“Also an idiot.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Fire. So much fire. Fire so hot it burns even ice to ashes. Fire like a wave to swallow the world whole. Fire from within her. Fire that sears skin and all she touches. Fire bright enough to blind those who look at her. Red flames in the palace. Red flames, kindled from within. On the night of fire, more will come to scorch him.”
― Natasha Ngan