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“But in the end every story I want to tell you is the same. Once upon a time, there was a boy. Once upon a time, there was a mother. Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his mother loved him very much.”
― Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

“So scared I’m pretty sure either my heart’s going to give out or I’m about to shit myself,” Ridoc answers from her other side.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“If everything was different, she thinks, if she’d had all those years with him as she should have, perhaps this language would be less foreign. The language of those beginning to shed their childhood: all gestures and subtext, all reserve and disdain. Maybe she would have learned to understand it. She wonders if Ethan does.”
― Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

“I will already know, as I am continuously with you,” he grumbles. “Forced to bear witness to the awkwardness that is twenty-one-year-old humans.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame