Teodora

“Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment.
“No” I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. “Tell me.”
"I can't.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were.”
― Tara Westover, Educated