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“Danger rarely wore a monstrous face and a wielded a pitchfork. No, danger came most often in the form of nice people whose niceness only went so deep, who saved their niceness for people exactly like them, who believed they were more deserving of power and respect than anyone who was a little bit different.”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

“But it was more than that. It was peace, the kind Mika was beginning to see she had never known. She hadn’t understood how exhausting and heartbreaking it had been to hide such a big part of herself all these years, to reshape and contort herself into something more acceptable. She hadn’t realised just how heavy her mask had been until she’d discovered what it was to live without it.”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

“I had too many ideals and ambitions for one person, and because of that, I ended up without a single one I could hold on to.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“Lord Hollowvale stared up at her with trembling, blood-flecked lips. "I have... only ever... been charitable to you," he whispered.

Dora blinked back hideous tears. "I am sure that every evil man believes himself to be charitable," she told him.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul