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“Fine,” he says, dropping his hand. “But you don’t have to hide, not anymore.” My expression goes cold. I force my legs to lock to disguise my trembling knees. “I told you. I’m always going to choose him.” I see the pale outline of his throat bob, like he’s taking in what I’m saying, getting a taste of the bitterness. His eyes, though, they’re drenched in it, and so is his voice when it hardens in a reply. “So be it.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glint

“You know I fought. I did, I fought the same way you want to fight now. I gave everything I had, sacrificed every last thing I held dear, but this city is a beast that feeds on misery, and pain, and death, and it’s never full. We can throw ourselves down its throat until there’s none of us left, and we won’t have made the slightest lick of difference, Saeris. The people will suffer. The people will die.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“If I have enough hope for him, then I’ve enough for you, too.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“I realized that’s what I was afraid was going to happen on the nineteenth. My divorce would be final, my rage would finally burn out, and I’d be left with what was left of me. And that wasn’t much.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly