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“I ought to slough off any tenderness like old dead skin. It will only leave me soft-bellied and spent”
― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

“She should not wear a white garment ever again. At least a dark linen will better hide the blood she sees dripping from her hands, soaking the hem of her dress, and pooling on the floor around her feet.”
― Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

“It seems, unfortunately, that nothing can protect you from your own mind, your knowledge, your memories. The harder you fight to keep thoughts out, the harder they pound the battering ram to get in.”
― Jacqueline Holland, The God of Endings

“But you understood, as I do, that survival is not a battle that you win only once. You must fight it again every day. And so you take your small losses so that you can live to fight tomorrow”
― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman