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“What someone is means nothing about what kind of person they are. Truth is in actions.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“Love is for those who know the griefs of time, for it goes hand in hand with loss. An eternity, so burdened, would be a torment. And yet—” He broke off, drew breath. “Yet what else to call it, this terror and this joy?”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

“Denying desire only made yourself vulnerable to those who were smart enough to see what you couldn't even acknowledge to yourself.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“Most women suffer thorns for the sake of the flowers, but we who wield power adorn ourselves with flowers to hide the sting of our thorns”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars