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“It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime

“It is always easier to blame gods or legends than it is to face our own mistakes.”
― Susan Dennard, Windwitch

“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“I want better choices."
"Then we must make a world that has them.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss