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“We are quite vicious to our younger selves, aren’t we?”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“I remember all of it, and I hate them more for that than any two-thousand-year-old betrayal. The death of one woman, one woman who was better than all of them, who had given everything until she had nothing left, was worth more than all of it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone

“You have grown, Erida," he said, his voice rough and dry, "Grown into something terrible."

"I am what you made me," she said, taking a step toward him. "I am the punishment you have earned. A woman in the place you sought to fill. A woman who holds all you tried to take. Better than you in every single way, greater than you could ever dream to become. You tried to put me on the pyre, my lord, but it is you who will burn.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Fate Breaker

“Get up,” he said. He didn’t bother to introduce himself. But maybe he knew he didn’t have to. I recognized him. I took his hand, and he helped me stand. “Welcome to the underworld,” Vincent, dead King of the Nightborn, said to me. “I hear we have some work to do.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone