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“But Harrowhark—Harrow, who was two hundred dead children; Harrow, who loved something that had not been alive for ten thousand years—Harrowhark Nonagesimus had always so badly wanted to live. She had cost too much to die.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“Life is too short and love is too long.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“She had the obligation to be more than the sum of her grievances with the world.”
― F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi

“When you're everyone in the past and when you're for everyone in the present, you're no one. Nobody. You don't exist. I didn't exist.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep