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“Our illusions weave roses around us, and when we try to escape, we are met with thorns.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

“He’d thought she was pretty.
That was all he’d thought, really, when he saw her standing by the wall. But then she spoke.
And he was lost forever.
When Charlotte spoke, the world came alive. She was fierce and stubborn and shockingly forthright. Her intelligence transformed her pretty face into something incandescent. Truly, he did not know a woman could be so beautiful.
She was a star. She was a comet. She was everything that sparkled in the night sky, brought down to earth by magic the church swore did not exist.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“She was the key to his health. She fed his happiness.
She would be the making of him.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte