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“Maybe love was easy, she thought. Maybe her past wasn't vital as her present, she thought. But then she heard her father say that she'd broken his heart, and she could no longer believe that either thought was true.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

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

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

“At once slow deep green rolled over him. He took a breath, and another, smelling old rotting leaves and healthy growth and autumn light. He felt almost as though he could have planted his feet and become a tree himself, a strong oak reaching up to the sky, brother of the old oak who ruled the wood.”
― Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood