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“Then Rhys fell to his knees and took Nesta's hands in his, pressing his mouth to her fingers. "Thank you," he wept, head bowed. Cassian knew it wasn't in gratitude for Rhy's own life that he knelt upon the sacred tattoos inked upon his knees.

Nesta dropped to the carpet. Lifted Rhy's face in her hands, studied what lay in it. Then she threw her arms around the High Lord of the Night Court and held him tightly.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“The most basic lesson of social change is that we will not dismantle power by collaborating with it, and yet we need to learn it again and again”
― Alice Bolin, Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse

“Here was a man who didn’t just disbelieve his own hype but took an active pleasure in making himself a fool for the world’s entertainment”
― Ava Reid, A Theory of Dreaming

“I signaled for him to lean down, and he did so. I then did the second most terrible thing a mother could do, in some ways worse than burying her beneath the stones. I breathed my daughter’s last breath into his mouth. I gave her to him so that her spirit would belong to him and he could carry her with him, so that he could still be a man with a soul, even though he had lost everything else.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers