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“This wasn’t going to end well. It couldn’t. It was going to break him. Evemer would not survive this—likely he had already failed to survive it. Likely it had already changed him, and he was only just now beginning to realize.”
― Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron

“Fixing seems so permanent, so absolute. Like there’s no room for error. Aim to make things better.”
― Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us

“That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was conditional.”
― Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

“There's something so comforting in the ability to be wordlessly petty with someone, in knowing that as soon as you have a closed door between the two of you and the rest of the world, you can share all your least attractive thoughts.”
― Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky