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“You have to prove yourself over and over, and when the glory for your most recent achievement expires, as it must, as it always will, you have to start again, but with more eyes trained on you, more people waiting for the day your talent withers, and your discipline weakens, and your charm wears away. Success is only meant to be rented out, borrowed in small doses at a time, never to be owned completely, no matter what price you're willing to pay for it.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“He would go up in flames if he had to, crawl the length of this room on his hands and knees until his lungs gave out, but he was not leaving here without her.”
― Catherine Doyle, The Rebel and the Rose

“Because what was a book, if not a portal into another realm, another time, another life even.”
― Callie Hart, Brimstone

“He feels a love so immense it might actually crush him
...As if he couldn't love her more.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Finds You