Liz

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“As women, we must have our weapons in this world, whether they’re our minds or our fists or our wiles or our tears.”
― Laura Sebastian, Lady Smoke

“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“People will believe anything if it makes them think they have more control than they do in this world.”
― Laura Sebastian, Lady Smoke