Eva Mandy

“See how brave they are, whispered the memory of her father’s voice. She’d been very young when he’d said this. Bright and still. Those stars are the kind of soldiers who stand and fight.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“As he spoke, it occurred to her that maybe he, too, felt like two people, that maybe everybody does, and that it's not a question of whether one's damaged, but of how easily or not that damage is seen.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“She focused on that nothingness, imagined it as ink spilling over everything she could possibly think or feel.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

“Nothing in dreams can hurt you, her father had said—which was another way of saying that life can.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss