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“It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

“It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“He'd spent so long memorizing the rules of interacting with people that he could twist them to his advantage. There are scripts people don't even realize they follow, and if you fit that script, or tweak it just enough to throw them off, they drop their guard.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us