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“Marynka was Midday. Her opposite. Her rival. Her. . . Was there even a word for a rival who you also wanted to kiss? Whatever she was, Marynka was the very last person she should be having those sorts of thoughts about.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

“Every day she was becoming a little less human, a little more of a monster.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

“You don’t notice the bars of the cage,” Beata said, “unless you start to throw yourself against them. Surviving is a choice too.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

“She’d learned to use that darkness, learned how to fold herself into shadow until she was a slither of the night itself, learned how to grow claws and steal prince’s hearts. She’d learned to bide her time and wait for the best moment to strike.
Really, Black Jaga could hardly claim to be shocked by Zosia’s actions. She was the one who had shaped Zosia into what she was, the one who had raised her. Wasn’t she the monster the old witch had wished for? The monster she’d crafted in her own image.
You made me, Grandmother. Am I not everything you wanted me to be?
The witch had only herself to blame.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls