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“Don't do that," he says. "Don't ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I've laid myself bare to you and all it's gotten me was a bullet wound and a broken heart. Don't torture me," he says, meeting my eyes again.
"It's a cruel thing to do, even to someone like me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I lived in a really dark place. I wasn't safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even tell the difference.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“No matter how much I trained with weapons and my body, my waist would never be narrow, nor would my hips ever be slender like the Ladies in Wait in Solis. I liked cheese and bacon and chocolate-covered everything too much for that.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The ​Crown of Gilded Bones

“A low, humming sound came from deep within me, finally forming rough, guttural words. "It hurts."
"I know. You're hungry. But you can't eat Kieran. That would make me a little sad.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The ​Crown of Gilded Bones