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“Love was the destroyer. It made mourners, widows, left misery in its wake. Grief and love were one and the same. Grief was the shadow love left when it was gone.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“The Suli believe that when we do wrong, we give life to our shadows. Every sin makes the shadow stronger, until eventually the shadow is stronger than you."
"If that were true, my shadow would have put Ketterdam in permanent night."
"Maybe," Inej said, turning her dark gaze to his. "Or maybe you're someone else's shadow.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“A life without purpose may be no life, but a life without love is nothing but an existence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame