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“The world was perfectly still for one precious instant. Then there was a crash, a shout, and something inside shattered.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“A lie was not a lie if it was never uttered; questions that were never asked did not need answers.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Sometime during the party, the storm had passed over. The sky was clear and quiet, stars peering curiously down at us from a wide dome of indigo. The water, too, was still, and I thought, what liars they are, the sky and the water. Still and calm and clear, like everything was fine. It wasn't fine, and really, it never would be again.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“The problem is that we're always living like we're lost.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel