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“She mothered them. She mothered him.

He hated it and loved it. He wished her quiet and prayed she would never stop talking. She made him both jubilant and miserable, and he found himself waiting with irritation and anticipation each night for the moment the men gathered and looked at her with pleading eyes and she acquiesced, telling them stories like they were children around her knees.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“(Some girl) "You said we'd have breakfast!"
(Jasper) "If i live, i'll buy you waffles."
"You don't have enough money to buy her waffles," Wylan grumbled.
"Be quite. We're in a library.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Walking away had been easy.
Not looking back was harder.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“And blood and tears and screams did not matter anymore, because at least they are together.”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina