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“All this time, I’d thought the nickname Study Machine was a compliment of sorts. That it meant productivity, above-human levels of discipline, that I was programmed for success. Now I wonder if it describes someone devoted to doing at the expense of feeling. Someone barely alive.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“I’m going to go back and stop your son from killing her.”
The queen’s face fell. For a moment, she looked as old as the years she’d spent lying in a suspended state. “That is not a small mistake to fix. If you do this, Time will take something equally valuable from you.”
The Fate gave the queen a look more vicious than any curse. “There is nothing of equal value to me.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“You’re someone who loves. That’s it. That’s the only part that’s yours to give and yours to take.”
― Kika Hatzopoulou

“No, logic doesn’t matter in the face of fear and emotion. Logic falls to its knees before hatred, and hatred flourishes in fear—and my people were terrified.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses