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“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Come on, darling, some darkly wicked, impulsive part of him thought, one last fight before I leave you.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“I hate you," she spat.
Alaric sneered at her. "See? Already you are acclimatizing so well to married life.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“If you give too much of yourself down here, you risk losing everything. Because no one will ever return that loyalty. You'll give and give and end up hollow... or dead. Remember that.”
― Sarah Hawley, Servant of Earth