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“I wanted just one girl, only one, to read my book and feel that she was understood, and I would be understood in return. Writing that book was like shining a beacon from a lighthouse, I suppose. Are there any ships on the horizon? Will they signal back to me?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“How will I reach Inys without you?' Tané said thickly. 'You will make a path,' Nayimathun said, gentler. 'Water always does.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Words mean what you want them to mean.”
― Allie Condie

“A throne was a kind of weapon by which the world was cut into two halves: the dead and the kneeling.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting