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“Nothing is ever simple. And when it is, it's rarely every worth it.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“I’m an open book,” I say, thinking of all the men who have found it illegible.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster

“I was pretending not to worry about the consequences of my isolation. But whenever I talked to anyone, I found myself overcompensating for the atrophy of my social muscles.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster

“You’re going nowhere, my little Persephone. I didn’t bring you back to my island just so you could leave, and I’m certainly not relieving you of your sentence. You’ll serve it at my goddamn side as the queen of my little underworld, and all your family will ever be able to do is watch.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates