Helen Freire

“I think it is because the Grisha do not suffer the way the Saints suffer, the way the people suffer.” “Maybe,” I said absently. “But you have suffered, haven’t you, Alina Starkov? And I think … yes. I think you will suffer more.” My head jerked up. I thought he might be threatening me, but his eyes were full of a strange sympathy that was even more terrifying. I”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“She was such a paradox: delicate but unbreakable; modest but intrepid; innocent but electrifying.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief