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“Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“she hated the narrative that in order to be a moderately successful Black person, she had to be exceptional. She didn’t know if she was capable of exceptional. She simply wanted to be. That was already hard enough.”
― Kristina Forest, The Neighbor Favor

“Good things usually hurt in the end.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury