Renata

“I have tried to dismantle you, Gideon Nav! The Ninth House poisoned you, we trod you underfoot—I took you to this killing field as my slave—you refuse to die, and you pity me! Strike me down. You’ve won. I’ve lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“I want to ask her again, why. Why is she friends with people who don’t let her be who she is? Who make her feel uncomfortable and embarrassed of who she is?”
― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

“Sometimes I think that maybe I like guys more as a concept than a reality. And girls more as a reality than a concept.”
― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

“Well sometimes what I want feels so grandiose: to have somebody's name imprinted on my tongue with how often I speak it, to twist our lives round one another and grow upwards
together, our stems stronger. To have to fight through someone to this world with. And sometimes it feels quiet. I just want a
hand to hold, a shoulder to lean on, I want to feel at rest with someone.”
― Bea Fitzgerald, The End Crowns All