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“Alchemists need to break themselves into pieces. They want to rebuild the world around them so desperately that they would give their blood, body or soul. But people in power cannot fathom breaking a world that already bows to them. Alchemists are forged from pain.”
― Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist

“But I—I would give up this entire world for a single breath to leave your lips again. And I don’t need you to feel the same way about me to do it. Do you understand what I’m saying?”
― June C.L. Tan, Darker by Four

“Time is a construct.” Zizi tried to stand straight, clearing his throat like he was an orator giving a grand speech. “Haven’t you heard the saying? A day feels like three autumns when one is missing one’s beloved.”
― June C.L. Tan, Darker by Four

“Most people thought of time as an unyielding constant, a sworn promise of sunrises and sunsets and shifting seasons. But only the descendants knew that time was nothing more than the whim of a forgotten god—it promised nothing, often lied, and had sharp, glistening teeth.”
― Kylie Lee Baker