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“And what she saw, for the first time, was not ugliness at all but pain so enormous and consuming that it had felt like dying. I’m sorry, she said silently to her past self. I’m sorry I hated you. I’m sorry I wasn’t kinder. All the shame that had been tangled up in the memory was annihilated, leaving only compassion and regret in its place.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“You’re still here, they said, those echoes of all the Sera’s that ever were. You went up in flames, but you’re still here. You’ll go up in flames again, but that’s ok, you know what to do now. You’ve done it already.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“This was a place stitched together by resistance, by acts of defiance by people who could not or would not go gently down the path the world had decided was inevitable…”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“Pei Ming raised his brow. “You sure know a lot, little friend.”

Hua Cheng mirrored his expression. “Nah. You just know too little, that’s all.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 5