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“By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“The poet runs untrammeled across the meadow. The translator dances in shackles.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Seelie and Unseelie, Wild Folk and Shy Folk, I am glad to have you march under my banner, glad of your loyalty, grateful for your honor.” His gaze goes to me. “To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen’s hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire